The Great Empire: The Aztecs

AN educational adventure

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

It’s is not your fault

Domestic Violence: violence within the home, husband, relatives; marital rape (forced sex); beating’; verbal abuse; incest; FGM (female genital mutilation); forced marriage and child marriage; refusal to work, control their income refusal to school.


Sexual Harassment: violence at workplace, includes refusal to employ; threats; job security, refusal of sexual acts, jeering; treating women as sex objects, sexist jokes, whistling; touching the buttocks or breasts…


Rape: defined as any form of sexual intercourse without free mutual consent between those involved. Statutory Rape, Sexual intercourse with a child. A woman is raped if sexual intercourse takes place without her consent.

Trafficking: this involves the procuring and transfer of women and girls with or without their consent for commercial sex work, forced domestic labour or other slave-like practices both within and outside the country.

Forced Prostitution: women (including wives, daughters, female wards and house girls) are forced into prostitution, to use their bodies to get gain