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Definitions
The UNHCR defines Gender-based Violence (GBV) as harmful acts directed at an individual based on their gender. These include any physical, psychological, or mental acts that harm a person based on their gender.

Forms
Gender-Based Violence assumes many different forms and shapes. It can present in the form of:


 * Child Marriage
 * Female Genital Mutilation
 * Honor killings
 * Trafficking for sex or slavery
 * Intimate partner violence
 * Physical Punishment
 * Sexual, emotional, or psychological violence

=== Ways to end Gender-Based Violence ===


 * 1) Funding women’s full participation in civil society.
 * 2) Scaling up prevention efforts that address unequal gender power relations as a root cause of gender-based violence.
 * 3) Bringing gender-based violence clinical services to lower-level health facilities.
 * 4) Developing support programs for professionals experiencing secondhand trauma.
 * 5) Addressing the needs of child survivors, including interventions to disrupt the gender-based violence cycle
 * 6) Developing guidance for building systems to eliminate gender-based violence.