Types of Abuse

Sexual Abuse

• Being forced to perform sexual acts against her will or to suffer pain or injury during sex
• Forced viewing of pornographic material,
• Loss of their decision-making rights about contraception, pregnancy and abortion.
• Loss of right to protection against STI’s.

Emotional Abuse

• Over or covert behaviours that attack a woman’s sense of self and well-being.
• Include acts of humiliation, name calling and belittling
• Can include blaming the woman for things over which she has no control-such as the sex of a child at birth.

Psychological Abuse

• Excessive jealousy,attempts to control the partner’s time, activities, dress and choice of friends.
• Harrassment with unwanted calls,visits, destruction of property.
• Enduring suicide threats, denial of affection and threats to abduct children and to cause the deportation of the victim.

Financial abuse

• Denying accesses to family finances and preventing the woman from working outside of home.

Ritual Abuse

• Forced participation and witnessing of rituals.
• Mutilation, animal mutualtion and forced cannibalisism ,encouraging the woman to suicide. 

Physical Abuse

(Can result in death)

• Slapping
• Biting
• Punching
• Shoving
• Kicking
• Use of Weapon

(Canad Med Assoc J. Dec1,1997, 157(11) in Middlesex-London Task Force pf 79 -80)