TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Increments of gender-based violence amid COVID-19 in Bangladesh: a threat to global public health and women's health
JO  - International journal of health planning and management
A1  - Islam, Md Rabiul
A1  - Hossain, Md Jamal
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - Sexual violence against women (SVAW) is one of the severe forms of gender-based violence. Sexual violence covers activities that vary from verbal sexual harassment to sexual pressure for involuntary penetration. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) defines sexual violence is "any sexual act, attempt to obtain a sexual act or other act directed against a person's sexuality using coercion, by any person regardless of their relationship to the victim, in any setting." Globally, about 30% of women face sexual violence by their intimate partner or non-partner in their lifetime.1 Also, the severe form of SVAW is rape, defined as "physical violence against the body with coerced penetration of the vulva, anus, or oral cavity". SVAW is an anti-human activity. It has many potential health consequences. Besides killing and suicidality, SVAW has some long-term impact on their reproductive, mental, and behavioural health. The violence against women has significantly increased across the world during health emergencies in the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, this increased sexual violence might create a long-term impact on their well-being even after the pandemic crisis.2 So, it is unacceptable, and there is no scope to see this as scattered incidences.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0749-6753
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3284
ID  - ref1
ER  -