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Gender Law Newsletter FRI 2024#1, 01.03.2024- Newsletter abonnieren

If they are used interchangeably, their definitions are in fact distinct, albeit inter-related. Based on the Explanatory Report to the convention, the brief then provides the following definitions:

• gender-based violence (GBV): the victim’s gender is the primary motive for the acts of violence. GBV is thus violence perpetrated against any person. The use of the word “gender” here does not refer to any particular gender characteristic of the victim.
• violence against women (VAW): all acts of gender-based violence that cause harm and suffering to women. The focus here is on women (and girls). It is legally considered as a human rights violation and a form of discrimination against women.

The Convention also uses “gender-based violence against women”, which emphasises that such violence is directed against a woman because she is a woman or […] affects women disproportionately. It makes explicit both the disproportionate impact of such violence on women and the gendered nature of the violence.