Gender-based violence (GBV) by definition It can include violence against women, domestic violence against women, men or children living in the same domestic unit.

The definition also includes: abusive international marriage, domestic violence, elder abuse, forced marriage, HIV and intimate partner violence, homicide, LGBTQ+ intimate partner violence, sexual violence and trafficking.

The United Nations defines violence against women as "any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life."