Fighting Domestic Violence

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3. Similarities and differences in terminology
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3. Similarities and differences in terminology
3.1 Domestic violence
This means any form of physical, mental, sexual and economic abuse perpetrated by a person to a person with whom he/she has a family relationship. This includes any acts of reprimand or emotional harm.
3.2 Stalking
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3.3 Harassment
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3.4 Victim
This means any person who is or has been in a domestic relationship with the defendant and who alleges to have been subjected to an act of domestic violence by the perpetrator. 
3.5 Abuser
This is known as a "perpetrator." The perpetrator is a person with family relations with the victim and for whom the victim alleges to have been subjected to an act of domestic violence. This includes any person involved in the domestic violence or an accomplice of the crime. 
3.6 Civil protection order
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3.7 Causes of action
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3.8 Marital rape
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3.9 Are there any other important domestic violence terms defined in relevant domestic violence statutes and codes?

Physical harm

This means an act of committing or causing bodily harm or injury, holding as a captive, inflicting physical pain or any other act connected with it and incidental to it, except the act of breaking the limbs of the body (Angabhanga).

Mental harm

This mean any act of threatening the victim with physical torture, showing terror, reprimanding him/her, accusing him/her of false blame, forcefully evicting him/her from the house or otherwise causing injury or harm to the victim emotionally. This term includes any discrimination carried out based on thought, religion or culture, and customs and traditions.

Sexual harm

This means sexual misbehavior, humiliation, discouragement or harm in respect of any person, or any other act that inhibits safe sexual health.

Economic harm

This means deprivation from using jointly or privately owned property, or the deprivation of or access to employment opportunities, economic resources or means.

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