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Violence is nurtured by multiple aspects and can appear through acts, behaviours, sayings and signs which may, in turn, generate other violent acts, or interact in such a way as to become difficult to restrain and control. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in 1998 defined Gender-Based Violence (GBV) as “violence involving men and women, in which the female is usually the victim; and which is derived from unequal power relationships between men and women. Violence is directed specifically against a woman because she is a woman, or affects women disproportionately