VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN (VAW)

Violence Against Women is any act of gender-based violence that results or is likely to result in physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women including threats or such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty whether occurring in public or private life. Gender-based violence is any violence inflicted on women because of their sex.

Violence Against Women in the family or domestic violence is “violence that occurs within the private sphere, generally between individuals who are related through intimacy, blood or law.” It often takes one or more of the following forms: physical violence such as physical chastisement, trafficking for both the sex industry and the service industry, forced prostitution, battering by employers and murder; sexual violence such as rape, sexual harassment and sexual intimidation, and psychological violence such as intimidation, sanction or isolation by community/cultural norms based on attitudes of gender discrimination (DOH, 2020).

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VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN (VAC)

Violence against children takes many forms, including physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, and may involve neglect or deprivation. Violence occurs in many settings, including the home, school, community and over the Internet. Similarly, a wide range of perpetrators commit violence against children, such as family members, intimate partners, teachers, neighbours, strangers and other children. Such violence not only inflicts harm, pain and humiliation on children; it also kills. All children have the right to protection from violence, regardless of the nature or severity of the act and all forms of violence can cause harm to children, reduce their sense of self-worth, affront their dignity and hinder their development (UNICEF, 2020).