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Reflections on battered women: gender violence and mental health. (Consequences of Gender Violence).
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- Women's Health Collection
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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Introduction
Although gender-based violence is far from being a new phenomenon, recent events have played a decisive role in bringing it to light and shifting it from the private to the public realm. Of particular importance was the United Nations General Assembly's "Declaration on the Elimination of all Forms of Violence against Women," approved in December, 1993 (Res. A.G. 48/104), as well as the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in September, 1995. In a recent article we described in detail the visibilization of domestic violence (Bosch and Ferrer, 2000).
For the purposes of this article, we will use the definition of gender-based or ...