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General

Self-care

Self-care is about looking after yourself physically, emotionally and mentally. As all of these things can be negatively affected by rape or sexual violence, self-care can be particularly helpful for victim-survivors.

Pregnancy, birth and early motherhood

Pregnancy, birth and early motherhood can be difficult for victim-survivors. Find out about how and where you can get support.

Myths about rape

Myths about rape are extremely harmful and can prevent victim-survivors from getting the help and support they need.

Trafficking

Trafficking involves moving people with the aim of exploiting them. This may include sexual violence, bonded labour, and servitude.

Self-harm

Self-harm is a broad term that describes the act of hurting yourself on purpose.

Online and technology-facilitated abuse

An experience of online and technology-facilitated sexual abuse can be just as devastating as an experience of abuse that has happened offline.

Forced marriage

A forced marriage is when you feel that you cannot say ‘no’ to a marriage.

FGM

Procedures that involve the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.

Domestic violence

Domestic violence is any incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive or threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between those who have been intimate partners or family members.

Child abuse

Child abuse is when a child in harmed by an adult or child. This could be once or over an extended period of time. This harm may be physical, sexual or emotional.