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’.2 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 socio-economic violence.3 VAWG occurs in the home, in state institutions and in the community.