5.7 Gender Based Violence: Definition and Procedures for Examination

The GBV's definition (the public-health frame): the violence against the person-based (the women's-and-LGBTQ+'s targeting — the physical-sexual-psychological-economic spectrum); the medical response's procedures: the identification (the screening — the pattern-injuries' recognition); the examination (the GBV protocol — the injuries' documentation; the sexual- violence's faces (5.6.1)); the psychological's documentation (the mental-health consequences); the referral (the protection-and-support services); the reporting's faces (the law-enforcement's interface — the survivor's choice's balance); the Nepal machinery (the GBV laws (the Domestic Violence (Offence and Punishment) Act 2066; the Gender Equality Act's line) + the service centres' network).