Continuum of violence against women from the home to the transnational sphere: the challenges of effective redress 2011, para. 25
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The mandate has identified two main categories of violence against women in the family sphere: domestic violence and harmful and degrading practices that are violent to and/or subordinate women, whether justified on the basis of religious, customary or other societal laws and practices. The mandate has adopted a broad definition of the family that encompasses intimate-partner and interpersonal relationships, including non-cohabitating partners, previous partners and domestic workers.
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Non-negotiated soft law
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Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences