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Gender-based violence

Meaning and relationship to your legal situation.

What it means

Violence against a woman by a current or former spouse or person in an analogous intimate relationship, within the statutory definition. It is not synonymous with all family violence.

Legal reference

Gender-based Violence Protection Act · art. 1

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