Abstract:

Violence against women, increasingly started to come to the fore nowadays and finally became a fundamental concept within the context of human rights. When some definitions of the term of violence against women that are situated in national and international documents are examined, it is seen these definitions involve not just the physical aspect of violence, also involve psychological, sexual, economical and some other types of it. In this paper, the term of violence against women is considered with an examination of international treaties’ content, transposition to domestic law and some statistical data together with its sociological aspect. When it is taken into account that family is one of the significant elements of the society, this study also analyzes how the term of family is examined in the literature.

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