Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Violence against women is a technical term used to refer to violent acts that are exclusively committed against women. It is said to be similar to a hate crime but with violence targeted to a specific group - women - with the victim's gender as a primary motive. The United Nations General Assembly defines violence against women as acts of gender-based violence that results in physical, sexual or mental harm to women. These include threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty which occur either in public or in private life.