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In Article 2 of the above mentioned Declaration, violence against women includes, but is not limited to, the following:

a) physical, sexual, and psychological violence, which occurs in the family, including beating, coercion of girls in the family to have sex, sexual abuse, violence connected with dowry, rape of a woman by her husband, injury of female reproductive organs and other traditional practices causing harm to women's health, extra-marital violence, and violence connected to exploitation;

b) physical, sexual or psychological violence, which occurs in society in general including rape, sexual coercion, sexual harassment and threats at work, study, and other places, trafficking women and coerced prostitution;

c) physical, sexual and psychological violence by or with connivance of the state irrespective of place or country where it takes place.