Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women and girls: preventing and responding to violence against women and girls in digital contexts (2018), para. 18
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Recognizing further that violence against women and girls is a manifestation of gender inequality and discrimination against women and girls, and can impede their economic empowerment and impose direct and indirect short- and long-term costs on individuals and society, including loss of livelihood and lack of access to digital financial services and the psychological and physical impact thereof, as well as additional expenses relating to health-care services, the legal sector, social welfare and specialized services,