“…It is pervasive and widespread, and it seriously violates women's enjoyment of their human rights. Numerous scholars have documented cases of violence against women in politics (Bardall, 2011; Bjarnegård, 2021; Bjarnegård, Håkansson, and Zetterberg, 2020; Kellow, 2010; Krook, 2017; Krook and Restrepo Sanín, 2016, 2020; Piscopo, 2015, 2016; Restrepo Sanin, 2018; UN Women, 2018; Valverde, 2011). In recent years, there has been ‘a troubling rise in reports of assault, intimidation, and abuse directed at female politicians’ (Krook and Restrepo Sanín, 2020: 740).…”