What is Violence and Abuse
Violence and abuse may occur only once, can involve various tactics of subtle manipulation or may occur frequently while escalating over a period of months or years. In any form, violence and abuse profoundly affect individual health and well-being. The roots of all forms of violence are founded in the many types of inequality which continue to exist and grow in society.
Violence And Abuse
Violence & Abuse can come in many different forms. Domestic Violence includes abuse that is physical, sexual, emotional, economic, psychological, dating-related, focused on children and the elderly, and stalking.
Physical Violence
Physical violence means that a person is exerting control over another person through the use of physical force. Examples of physical violence include hitting, punching, slapping, kicking, restraining, choking, strangulation, and brandishing or using any object as a weapon.
Sexual Violence
Sexual violence is any sexual act or attempt to obtain a sexual act by violence or coercion, act to traffic a person, regardless of the relationship to the victim.
Emotional Abuse
Emotional abuse involves controlling another person by using emotions to criticize, embarrass, shame, blame, or otherwise manipulate them. While most common in dating and married relationships, mental or emotional abuse can occur in any relationship—including among friends, family members, and co-workers.
Economic Abuse
Economic abuse is a form of abuse when one intimate partner has control over the other partner's access to economic resources, which diminishes the victim's capacity to support themselves and forces them to depend on the perpetrator financially.
Psychological Abuse
Psychological abuse, often called emotional abuse, is a form of abuse characterized by a person subjecting or exposing another person to a behavior that may result in psychological trauma, including anxiety, chronic depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder.
Youth & Dating Abuse
Dating abuse or dating violence is the perpetration or threat of an act of violence by at least one member of an unmarried couple on the other member in the context of dating or courtship.Dating violence crosses all racial, age, economic and social lines. The Center for Relationship Abuse Awareness describes dating abuse as a "pattern of abusive and coercive behaviors used to maintain power and control over a former or current intimate partner.
Children and elderly Abuse
Elder Abuse affects people of every social, economic, and religious background impacting both men and women. It is similar to other forms of domestic violence and may include physical violence, sexual assault, emotional, and psychological.
Stalking and Harrassment
Stalking involves a person becomes fixated or obsessed with another.Stalking is a pattern of persistent and unwanted attention that makes you feel pestered, scared, anxious or harassed.
Technology-assisted Abuse
Technology-Assisted Abuse is using cell-phones, computers, social networks and other electronic tools to stalk, bully, intimidate, frighten, harass or otherwise harm someone.An abuser may keep track of how you use your computer. The only way to be completely safe is to go to a computer the abuser doesn't know about, like a friend's computer or a computer at the library.
Violence against women and children
Violence Against Women and ChildrenViolence affects millions of women and children around the world. Those living in poverty are some of the most vulnerable to a range of everyday forms of violence.—including sexual violence and domestic violence. When a man assaults his wife or partner, it’s seen as a “family matter” handled inside the home instead of reported to authorities. Sexual violence against children is frequent, and courts are ill-equipped to handle these cases and can’t respond when these women and children desperately need protection.
Nearly 1 in 5 girls is sexually abused at least once in her life.
More than 570 million women are estimated to be subject to gender-based violence annually.
Worldwide, up to 50% of sexual assaults are committed against girls under 16 years old.
