They shall be discontinued
when their
achieved.
(k) "Violence Against Women"
gender-based
violence that results in,
or
objectives
have been
refers to any actof
is likely to result
in,
physical, sexual, or psychological harm or suffèring to women,
including threats of such acts, coercion, or arbitrary deprivation
of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life. It shall
be understood to encompass, but not limited to, the
following:
(1) Physical, sexual, psychological, and economic
violence occurring in the family, including battering,
sexual abuse of female children in the household,
dowry-related violence, marital rape, and other
traditional practices harmful to women, non-spousal
violence, and violence related to exploitation;
(2) Physical, sexual, and psychological violence
occurring within the general community, including
rape, sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and intimidation
at work, in educational institutions and elsewhere,
trafficking in women, and prostitution; and
(3)
Physical,
perpetrated
or
sexual,
and
condoned
by
psychological violence
the State, wherever it
occurs. It also includes acts of violence against women
as
defined in
Republic
Acts No. 9208 and 9262.
(1) "Women in the Military" refers to women employed
who are
both in the major and technical services,
performing combat and/or noncombat functions, providing
from various
security to the State, and protecting the people
forms of threat. It also includes women trainees in all military
in the
military,
training institutions.
and programs
(m) "Social Protection" refers to policies
to risks and
that seek to reduce poverty and vulnerability
the
enhance the social status and rights of all women, especially
livelihood and
marginalized by promoting and protecting
sudden loss of
employment, protecting against hazards and
to manage risk. Its
income, and improving people's capacity
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