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Status of women
. The United Nations define violence against women 
as 
any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, 
physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of 
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such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in 
public or in private life
. 
There are a lot of problems concerning violence against women in the 
world. It does not matter which kind of violence they suffer from. According 
to the rule of law, all kinds of gender are equal in the meaning of social, 
economic, physical rights and freedom of thought. What is more, we 
should try to establish and to maintain a reverse discrimination for women. 
Unfortunately, women often work in bad conditions and at the same 
time they are less paid. There some barriers for women in the meaning of 
forced labor participation rate. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, 
Bureau of Labor Statistics, there is a 57% participation
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but it does not 
mean that women have a real equality. Moreover, most of these women do 
not have a health coverage or/and they suffer oppression. 
Furthermore, the analysis of WHO with the London School of Hygiene 
and Tropical Medicine and the Medical Research Council found that glob-
ally 35% of women have experienced either physical and/or sexual inti-
mate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence
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. 
At that point I claim that this rate is not real one. The real one is higher 
than this rate. For that reason alone, we can see psychological violence on 
women because of not being clear about their bad experiences. Most of 
women are trying to hide those harmful incidents because of fear. Espe-
cially in Arab countries, in Kurdish society and in Africa, women are not 
seen as human beings. We have to stop this kind of actions against wom-
en. At the same time, some organizations such as WHO, United Nations 
Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of women etc. are trying 
to prevent that abuse of human rights.