Violence against women as a barrier to the effective realization of all human rights 2014, para. 14
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Violence against women impairs and nullifies women's realization of all human rights, it prevents women from participating in their communities as full and equal citizens, it reinforces male dominance and control, it supports discriminatory gender norms and it maintains systemic inequalities between women and men. These factors, in turn, preserve and perpetuate conditions that enable gender-based violence to continue.
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Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences