Among refugees and internally displaced populations (IDPs), women and girls are particularly vulnerable to GBV such as forced sex/rape, early or forced marriage, abuse by an intimate partner, child sexual abuse, forced or coerced prostitution and sex trafficking [ 2, 3].
The most common violation so far is land confiscation and forced or coerced evictions.
In the bill, rape is narrowly defined as forced or coerced genital or anal penetration.
For many, the abuse itself may have involved being forced or coerced into drug taking or criminal activity.
The pope listed specific forms of abuse, including sexual crimes, vulnerable women being forced by nuns to undertake manual labour, and forced or coerced adoptions.
Vogel realized that marriage laws in Virginia failed to protect children from forced or coerced marriages, rendering minors vulnerable to sexual abuse.
I have heard several stories of women being forced or coerced into surrogacy by husbands or even pimps, and ask Mehta if she is aware of this happening.
The first concerns the forced or coerced sterilization of HIV-positive women; the second challenges a directive from Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to list the names of HIV-positive individuals, including children.
More than 300,000 women and men – mostly poor and indigenous – are understood to have been sterilised in the late 1990s in Peru, and many of them were forced or coerced into having the procedure.
While Israeli demographers discuss the need to "preserve a clear and undisputed Jewish majority among Israel's total population", it may seem anomalous that women in the Jewish Ethiopian population are forced or coerced into using this highly effective contraceptive method.
And the central opposition to abortion rights isn't about saving babies, promoting family or protecting women; it's about controlling female sexuality and trying to return to a time when women were forced or coerced into subservience.
