{"id":30389,"date":"2025-09-16T13:51:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T11:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/what-is-gender-based-violence\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T13:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T11:51:14","slug":"what-is-gender-based-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/what-is-gender-based-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"What is gender-based violence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element in-legacy-container\" style=\"--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"561\" title=\"violence-women\" src=\"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/11\/violence-women.jpg\" alt class=\"img-responsive wp-image-28941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/11\/violence-women-200x140.jpg 200w, https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/11\/violence-women-400x281.jpg 400w, https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/11\/violence-women-600x421.jpg 600w, https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/11\/violence-women.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><em>Gender-based violence (or GBV) means any kind of hurtful actions by men against women, and by women against men. It can affect anybody \u2013 of any race, age or community.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Gender-based violence is often physical \u2013 that means beating, hitting or killing. But these are also types of GBV:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rape, sexual abuse or forced prostitution<\/li>\n<li>Any type of sex with a child<\/li>\n<li>Harmful words that make women feel helpless<\/li>\n<li>Any harmful actions in the family<\/li>\n<li>Child marriage, forced marriage, circumcision of girls, and marriage to more than one person<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Violence against women is a major problem in South Africa, but there are laws that protect women.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Want more info about GBV?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can reach out to your EWP at any time for help.<\/p>\n<p>Toll-free: 0800 204 555<br \/>\nRequest a call back: *134*905#<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature-articles"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-25 18:50:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30390,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30389\/revisions\/30390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}