 | UNFPA and Women's Health |
| UNFPA: Promoting the Human Rights of Women |
| Bride Napping also called marriage by abduction or marriage by capture, occurs when a young woman, usually below the age of 25, is typically taken through force or deception by a group of men, including the intended groom. |
| Traumatic Fistula is ‘an abnormal opening between the reproductive tract of a woman or girl and one or more body cavities or surfaces, caused by sexual violence, usually but not always in conflict and post-conflict settings. |
| Femicide are killings are characterized by extreme viciousness, often involving rape, torture, mutilation, and dismemberment. |
| Breast Ironing is a traditional practice that involves massaging or pressing the breasts of adolescent girls in order to suppress and reverse their development. |
| Early Marriage, otherwise known as child marriage, is the marriage of a young person (typically a girl) before the onset of adulthood as defined by the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child. |
| Domestic Violence in the Russian Federation. An estimated 14,000 Russian women are killed every year, on average, by partners or other family members. |
| Draupadi refers to the merchandising of women who are sold by their families or relatives into non-consensual marriages. |
| Gender-based Violence and HIV, women and girls are physiologically two to four times more susceptible to HIV infection than men and boys |
| Self-immolation (sacrificial suicide) in Northern Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan is often a response to family violence that has a gender component. |
| 'Compensation' Marriage refers to the practice of forcing girl children into arranged marriages as compensation for a murder perpetrated by a member of her family, to offset debts, or the settlement of other inter-ethnic or family disputes. |