Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment (2014), para. 19
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Expressing concern that social norms and legal constraints that restrict women’s agency in the public and private sphere and their economic independence can constrain a woman’s ability to leave an abusive or violent situation and reduce her ability to access protection and to secure an adequate standard of living,