the aim is to familiarise readers with the aims and context of the project it includes acts that inflict physical mental or sexual harm or suffering threats of such acts coercion and other deprivations of liberty as such it is a type cause and consequence of discrimination five categories are usually distinguished within a definition of vawg although these are not exclusive sexual violence physical violence emotional and psychological violence harmful traditional practices and socioeconomic violence vawg occurs in the home in state institutions and in the community