18-DAY CAMPAIGN TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN (VAW)

As we observe the 18-Day Campaign to End Violence Against Women (VAW), let us take time to understand these different forms of abuse.

Violence Against Women (VAW) comes in many forms:

-Physical Violence

-Sexual Violence

-Psychological Violence

-Economic Abuse

🔴 Physical Violence – Acts that cause bodily pain, discomfort, or injury such as assault, slapping, hair-pulling, choking, or poisoning.

🟣 Sexual Violence – Any sexual activity without consent, including rape, groping, sexual exploitation, stalking, or spreading sexual content.

🟡 Psychological Violence – Emotional or mental abuse like threats, name-calling, bullying, gaslighting, social isolation, or public humiliation.

🟢 Economic Abuse – Refers to behaviors that aim to make a woman financially dependent by limiting her access to resources and autonomy. This includes restricting financial knowledge, controlling or denying access to money, preventing her from making financial decisions, opening accounts under a partner’s name, stealing or selling property without consent, taking her wages or financial aid, interfering with her work or education, and refusing to share childcare responsibilities.

WHERE TO GET HELP?

Police: 122

Egyptian Council for Women: Tel. 02 234 900 60 / 02 234 900 65 / 15115

Egyptian National Council for Childhood and Motherhood: Tel. 02 252 402 88 / 02 252 404 08

Internet Police (Cybercrime Unit, Ministry of Interior) : 108

Philippine Embassy in Cairo Assistance to Filipino nationals (ATN) : ‪+20 122 743 6472‬