sexual abuse

sexual abuse

Keywords

Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women (1993) : sexual abuse [Keywords]

any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life

Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) : sexual abuse [Keywords]

a child means every human being below the age of eighteen years unless under the law applicable to the child, maturity is attained earlier