Violence is not limited to physical impact. Specialists at the Republican Center for Health Promotion emphasized that its forms include insults, threats, financial restrictions, as well as coercion into unwanted sexual acts.
Types of violence and signs of threats
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines violence as the intentional use of physical force or power that can cause bodily injury, psychological trauma or other harm.
How violence manifests
- Physical: inflicting injuries, beatings, pushes, slaps.
- Psychological: intimidation, blackmail, insults, control.
- Economic: withholding financial support, forbidding work or study, total control over spending.
- Sexualized: coercion into sexual relations by force, threat or deception.
