Femcities Conferences
5th and 6th of June 2025, Athens, Greece
Location: Stelios Foundation Conference Hall
Adress: Kidathinaion 22, Athens, 105 58, Greece
GBV is any type of violence based on someone’s gender from physical to psychological, emotional to financial to reproductive violence. While anybody can be a victim of GBV, women are overwhelmingly affected as seen in the number of femicides, rape, stalking or online harassment.
Gender-based violence is enacted under many different manifestations, from its most widespread form, intimate (ex-) partner violence, to acts of violence carried out in online spaces. These forms are not mutually exclusive and multiple incidences of violence can happen at the same time, reinforcing each other. Inequalities experienced by a person related to their ethnicity, (dis)ability, age, social class, religion, sexual orientation or gender identity can also drive acts of violence. This means that while women face violence and discrimination based on gender, some women experience multiple and interlocking forms of violence.
Violence against women continues to be one of the most severe human rights violations within all societies around the world. It is deeply rooted in systemic power imbalances between women and men. GBV is manifested in patriarchal structures or inadequate laws.
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