Sexual Violence
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A term which encompasses a wide variety of abuses, including rape, sexual threats, exploitation, humiliation, assaults, molestation, domestic violence, incest, involuntary prostitution (sexual bartering), torture, and attempted rape. Sexual abuse manifests itself in acts or threats of physical intrusion of a sexual nature, whether by force or under unequal or coercive conditions. This includes, but not limited to: attempted or committed rape, any forced and non-consensual sexual act, as well as sexual behaviour that the person on the receiving end finds humiliating and degrading.
Psychological Violence
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Isolation from friends, family and other supportive social networks
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Threats, bullying and intimidation
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Harassment, persecution, terror and stalking
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Insults, humiliation, defamation
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Economic violence, abuse of dependency situations
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Damage to property, cruelty to pets
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The European court of Human Rights has established that states have a duty to protect the enjoyment of the right to life under Article 2, the right not to be subjected to torture and ill-treatment under Article 3 and the right to family life under Article 8; the duty to protect applies also where a private individual commits the actual breach.
When authorities fail to take appropriate action to protect the lives of the innocent, mainly women and children, in cases of domestic violence, they are affectively in breach of the convention;;; it must take measures in order to prevent its occurrence.
Gender based violence against women may breach provisions of the convention, regardless of whether those provisions expressly mention violence.
The council of Europe’s European Committee of Social Rights has stated that Article 16 of the European Social Charter on the right of the family to social, legal and economic protection applies to all forms of Domestic Violence and that state parties are obligated to adopt measures to protect women from domestic violence, both in law and in practice.
Furthermore, The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union enshrines certain political, social, and economic rights for European Union (EU) citizens and residents into EU Law.
Physical Violence
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Physical violence ranges from ‘just a slap in the face’ to sexual abuse all the way to manslaughter, attempted murder and murder. It includes any form of abuse, such as pushing, kicking, pulling hair, burning and wounding with weapons. This may cause injuries such as bruises, contusions, lacerations, teeth knocked out, fractures or cuts. Injuries due to the abuse are often found on the head, neck, throat, breast and lower abdominal regions women who are being abused by violent partners also during pregnancy, may result in complications or miscarriage.
