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Is é sainmhíniú Choinbhinsiún Chomhairle na hEorpa chun foréigean in aghaidh na mban agus foréigean teaghlaigh a chosc agus a chomhrac (Coinbhinsiún Iostanbúl) ar fhoréigean in aghaidh na mban ná gach cineál foréigin atá bunaithe ar inscne, ar dócha go n-eascróidh díobháil fhisiceach, ghnéasach, shíceolaíoch, nó eacnamaíoch uaidh do mhná, lena n-áirítear bagairtí go ndéanfaí na gníomhartha sin orthu, comhéigean nó saoirse a bhaint go treallach, bíodh sin ag tarlú sa saol poiblí nó sa saol príobháideach.
The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (the Istanbul Convention) defines violence against women as all acts of gender-based violence that result in, or are likely to result in, physical, sexual, psychological or economic harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.