Sexual act directed against a person forcibly and/or against that person’s will, or not forcibly when the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her temporary or permanent mental or physical incapability (Snyder, 2000). In the case of sexual abuse the aggressor wants the relationship while the victim is entirely rejecting it.

This can be understood as the right for all, whether young or old, women, men or transgender, straight, gay, lesbian or bisexual, HIV positive or negative, to make choices regarding their own sexuality and reproduction, providing they respect the rights of others to bodily integrity. This definition also includes the right to access information and services needed to support these choices and optimize health.

Any coerced sexual contact or behaviour, or an attempt to coerce such, without the victim’s consent. This category includes, but is not limited to: attempted or committed rape, any forced and non-consensual sexual act, as well as sexual behaviour that the victim finds humiliating and degrading.

Fanatic bias in the adoption of negative presuppositions towards women as a group, and about the social roles and personality traits that they are supposed to have. Manifestations in Arab societies include, for example, disparaging the capacity of women mental and moral abilities, which we find in common proverbs. These features of sexism tend to justify women's disadvantaged status and socio-economic position in the social ladder, and in other aspects. They justify, in particular, discriminatory laws regulating family and public life.

Data collected and tabulated separately for women and men allowing the measurement of differences between women and men in terms of various social and economic dimensions and are one of the requirements to obtaining gender statistics. Gender statistics are more than data disaggregated by sex, however. Disaggregating data by sex does not guarantee, for example, that concepts, definitions and methods used in data production are conceived to reflect gender roles, relations and inequalities in society.

Trade in human beings, largely in women and children, for the purpose of sexual exploitation.

Refers to the underreporting or misreporting of demographic, social or economic characteristics associated with one of the sexes. Some examples of sex bias in data collected include the underreporting of women’s economic activity, the undercounting of girls, their births or their deaths and the underreporting of violence against women.

Sex as individual biological characteristic (female or male) is recorded during data collection in censuses, surveys or administrative sources. By comparison to gender differences, which are shaped over by the history of social relations, and change over time and across cultures, biological differences in sex are fixed and unchangeable and do not vary across cultures and overtime. Sex-disaggregated data have the capacity to reveal differences in women’s and men’s lives that are the result of gender roles and expectations. For example, gender may determine differences in education or work for women and men. Statisticians reveal these gender differences by collecting and analysing data on education and work disaggregated by sex as well as other characteristics.

An injury whereby life could be endangered, including cases of injury involving the use of a dangerous instrument. Cases where instruments are used only to threaten are excluded.

Reflects the extent of participation in the economy and society and how well individuals are able to get through daily life on their own.