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Violence against women
Violence against women is gender-based violence causing women physical, sexual, or psychological harm, defined by the United Nations in 1993 and measured by the World Health Organization.
Violence against women in India
Violence against women in India covers domestic, dowry-related and sexual violence; around 445,256 crimes were registered in 2022, NFHS-5 shows one in three women face spousal violence, and services include One Stop Centres and helpline 181.
Violence and controversies during the George Floyd protests
Violence and controversies during the George Floyd protests: ACLED data show about 95% of demonstrations were peaceful, while contested police use of less-lethal weapons, federal deployments, misconduct findings, and roughly $150 million in settlements shaped the aftermath.
Violet Brown
Violet Brown (née Moss, Mosse), Jamaican supercentenarian (10 March 1900 – 15 September 2017), oldest verified living person from April to September 2017 at 117 years 189 days, first verified Jamaican supercentenarian and oldest verified Jamaican ever.
Violet Kray
Violet Anne Kray, née Lee (1909–1982), mother of East London gangster twins Reggie and Ronnie Kray; married Charles Kray in 1926, lived at 178 Vallance Road, Bethnal Green, and was buried at Chingford Mount in 1982.
Violet Trefusis
Violet Trefusis (née Keppel), English-born novelist and salon hostess (1894–1972), remembered for her affair with Vita Sackville-West, her dual-language novels such as Écho, and her Paris and Florence salons.
Viral phenomenon
Viral phenomenon: rapid, widespread spread of information, memes, or behaviors through social networks, studied as information diffusion; complex contagion, structural virality, homophily, and prediction of viral cascades.
Virginia Giuffre
Virginia Roberts Giuffre (1983–2025), American-born survivor advocate and principal accuser of Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew; founded SOAR, settled the 2021 New York civil suit for a reported $16 million, died April 25, 2025 in Western Australia.
Virginity
Virginity, a social and cultural concept defined as never having had sexual activity, has no medical or scientific basis. WHO and UN agencies condemn virginity testing; England and Wales criminalized it under the Health and Care Act 2022.
Virginity auction
Virginity auction: an offer to sell one's virginity, usually a woman's, to the highest bidder via escort sites, eBay-style listings, or brothels; most publicized cases, including Catarina Migliorini's $780,000 Virgins Wanted auction, were never completed.
Virtual sex
Virtual sex, also called cybersex or teledildonics-mediated intimacy, is sexual interaction mediated by digital technology: text, sexting, webcam, VR, avatars, and connected sex toys, with documented benefits for connection and risks of image exposure, hacking, and consent violations.
Visa policy of Australia
Australia's visa policy: rules under the Migration Act 1958 and Migration Regulations 1994 governing visitor, student, skilled, family and humanitarian visas, the points test, fees, and recent policy changes.
Visa policy of Mexico
The visa policy of Mexico is grounded in the Migration Law (Ley de Migración), allowing exempt nationals 180 days to enter for tourism or business without a visa.
Visa policy of the Philippines
Visa policy of the Philippines: EO 408 visa-free rules (30 days general; 14-day Indian and Chinese regimes from June 2025), 9(a) visas, BI extensions and fees, balikbayan privilege, and the eVisaPH platform.
Visayans
Visayans (Bisaya) are the ethnolinguistic peoples of the central Philippines, divided into Cebuano, Waray, Hiligaynon, Kinaray-a, and Aklanon groups speaking related Bisayan Austronesian languages; Spaniards once called them Pintados, and tens of millions live in the Visayas and on Mindanao.
Visible minority
Visible minority: Canadian legal and census category (Employment Equity Act) for non-Indigenous, non-white persons; coined by Kay Livingstone in 1975; 26.5% of Canada in 2021; now termed racialized groups.
Visual analog scale
The visual analog scale (VAS) is a psychometric rating instrument on which a respondent marks the intensity of pain, mood, or anxiety along a continuous line.
Visual ethnography
Visual ethnography is a qualitative social-science method that uses photography, video, and other visual media to document, analyze, and represent the culture and everyday practices of a group.
Visual perception
Visual perception is the brain's process of interpreting sight. It is studied through theories like the constructivist and ecological approaches, which involve ventral and dorsal visual systems.
Visual perceptual learning
Visual perceptual learning (VPL) is the long-term improvement in visual task performance from repeated practice or exposure, used to study plasticity in the adult visual system and applied clinically to amblyopia.
Visual search task
A visual search task is a cognitive psychology experiment in which participants look for a designated target among distracting items, measuring attention through reaction time and accuracy.
Visual world paradigm
The visual world paradigm is an eye-tracking method in psycholinguistics that records where listeners look in a visual scene while hearing spoken language, as a measure of comprehension.
Visuomotor rotation task
The visuomotor rotation task is a sensorimotor adaptation paradigm in which cursor feedback is rotated by a fixed angle, so participants alter reaching direction to hit targets.
Viv Nicholson
Viv Nicholson, born Vivian Asprey (1936–2015), British football pools winner whose "spend, spend, spend" vow after the 1961 Littlewoods £152,319 jackpot made her famous; her life inspired an autobiography, BBC play, and West End musical.
Vivian Cash
Vivian Cash (Vivian Liberto, 1934-2005), Johnny Cash's first wife from 1954 to 1966 and mother of his four daughters; memoirist of I Walked the Line, target of a 1965 white supremacist campaign, and subject of My Darling Vivian.
Vlachs
Vlachs: Romance-speaking Balkan peoples, chiefly Aromanians plus Megleno-Romanians and Istro-Romanians; historically transhumant herders; scattered across Greece, Albania, North Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Croatia, and Romania; disputed populations, endangered languages.
Vlahii
Vlahii (Romanian, "the Vlachs"): exonym of Celtic origin for Romance-speaking Balkan populations, attested from the 9th century; also a village in Constanța County, Romania, and a Pleiades ancient fort record (BAtlas 22 E4).
Vokkaliga (ಒಕ್ಕಲಿಗ)
Vokkaliga (ಒಕ್ಕಲಿಗ), also Okkaliga or Gowda, is a group of landowning agrarian castes of southern Karnataka, India; the classic example of Srinivas's dominant caste, largely rural-OBC classified, and a major force in Karnataka politics.
Volga Germans
Volga Germans: German-speaking settlers invited to Russia by Catherine II's 1763 manifesto, founding 106 Volga villages; later organized in a 1924-1941 ASSR, deported by Stalin in 1941, with diasporas in the Americas, Kazakhstan, and Germany.
Volga Tatars
Volga Tatars (Kazan Tatars), a Turkic Muslim people of the middle Volga and Tatarstan, descended from Volga Bulgars and Kipchaks; Islamic since 922, ruled by the Kazan Khanate until Ivan IV's 1552 conquest, distinct from Crimean and Siberian Tatars.