Table 2.

Cases of violence against women and children, as reported in interviews

	Abuse of power and domination
Controlling behaviour	Psychological violence	Economic violence	Physical violence	Sexual violence
Forcing girls and women to marry Preventing girls from attending school Preventing women from going to health centre Preventing an abortion or forcing women to abort Forcing women to stay at home Preventing women from accessing contraception Preventing women or their families from complaining to the authorities Preventing women from getting divorced Controlling the resources of the home Dominating decision‐making in the home Polygamy	Scorn, denigration Abandoning the home Threatening to marry another woman Reminding women they are inferior to men Insults Blaming a woman for bringing shame on family when she is raped Separating a girl from her parents when she is raped Harassing single women in the public space Divorce because a woman is HIV‐positive	Denial of resources Depriving a woman of or monopolising her resources (bags of millet, money) Preventing women from working Asking the family of a woman who wants to separate from her husband to repay twice the dowry Prostitution of destitute women	Hitting in the face Thrashing/beating up/beating/hurting Slaughtering a daughter who refuses to marry the man chosen for her Abusing Koranic school students Kidnapping girls Beating a daughter to death because she became illegitimately pregnant	Rape (women, teenage girls and girls) Deflowering a girl Mutilating the genitals of girls Raping students

Sources: authors.