Continuum of violence against women from the home to the transnational sphere: the challenges of effective redress 2011, para. 80
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A holistic approach to understanding discrimination and violence against women requires, among others, (a) treating rights as universal, interdependent and indivisible; (b) situating violence on a continuum that spans interpersonal and structural violence; (c) accounting for both individual and structural discrimination, including structural and institutional inequalities; and (d) analysing social and/or economic hierarchies among women, and between women and men, i.e., both intra gender and inter-gender.
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Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences