Types of violence

It can include withholding money, controlling all the household spending or refusing to include you in decisions related to money.

The behaviour of a person who hurts or frightens someone smaller or less powerful, often forcing that person to do something they do not want.

Unwanted behavior, physical or verbal (or even suggested), that makes a reasonable person feel uncomfortable or humiliated.

Any aspect of a culture that can be used to legitimize violence in its direct or structural form.

Behavior characterized by the making of unwelcome and inappropriate sexual remarks or physical advances in a workplace or other professional or social situation.

Occurs when someone uses a person's spiritual beliefs to manipulate, dominate or control the person.

Any sexual act or attempt to obtain a sexual act by violence or coercion, act to traffic a person, or act directed against a person.

Hitting, slapping, choking, punching, kicking, pushing, grabbing, throwing, burning, hair-pulling, twisting arms, confinement, use of weapons, etc.

Involves controlling and manipulating with emotionally abusive tactics.

The abuse occurs at the hands of a caregiver or someone that an old person trusts, or the one his/her family hired.

Unwanted and/or repeated surveillance by an individual or group toward another person.

Includes sending, posting, or sharing negative, harmful, false, or mean content about someone else.

Failure to enroll a child of mandatory school age in school, and failure to attend to a special educational need.

Involves using words to call names, bully, demean, frighten, intimidate, or control another person.

Withholding food, care or medication, stopping verbal communication.

The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of people through force, fraud or deception, with the aim of exploiting them for profit.

Any act or failure to act by a parent or a caregiver that results in actual or potential harm to a child.

Violence or other abuse that occurs in a domestic setting, such as in a marriage or cohabitation.

Forcing women or girls to get married without their consent.

The use of the Internet or other electronic means to stalk or harass an individual, group, or organization.