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• Intentional injuries

  Injuries resulting from violence
• The convention on the rights of the child states that children around the world have a rights to a safe environment and to protection from injury and violence
• Although the adults around you should protect you against any harm that may threaten your safety and your life, you cannot rely on them all of the time. You have the responsibility and capability of shielding yourself from the dangerous world that we live in today
• Intentional injuries


  Violent actions and behaviors that are considered crimes because of the damage to the victims, not only to their properties but most especially to their physical, mental, social, emotional and moral-spiritual health
• Intentional injuries


  Injuries where a person harms him/herself on purpose or when a person/persons harm another on purpose
• Types of intentional injuries

  • Self-inflicted (suicide, parasuicide)
  • Assault (domestic violence, bullying, stalking, extortion, gang/youth violence, fraternity hazing, sexual abuse)
• Suicide


  Ending one's own life, sometimes a way for people to escape pain or suffering
• Parasuicide


  An apparent attempt at suicide in which the aim is not death, often a cry for help
• Domestic violence


  An act that includes physical assault, sexual abuse, and verbal abuse, used by one person in a relationship who tries to control the other
• Domestic violence includes


  • Name calling or putdowns
  • Keeping a partner from contacting his/her family or friends
  • Withholding money/allowance or denying financial support
  • Stopping a partner from getting or keeping a job
  • Actual or threatened physical harm
  • Sexual assault
  • Stalking
  • Intimidation
• Bullying


  Unwanted, aggressive behavior that is repeated or can be repeated over time, involving an imbalance of power
• Types of bullying

  • Verbal (teasing, name-calling, threatening, taunting, making inappropriate sexual comments)
  • Social (telling other children not to be friends with someone, spreading rumors, embarrassing someone in public)
  • Physical (hitting, kicking, pinching, spitting, taking/breaking things, tripping/pushing, making mean/rude hand gestures)
  • Cyber (using social media, mobile devices, electronic mail)
• Stalking


  A pattern of behavior that makes someone feel afraid, nervous, harassed or in danger, involving repeatedly contacting, following, sending things to, and talking to someone even when they don't want it
• Extortion


  The act of using force or threats to force people to hand over their money or properties, or favors
• Gang and youth violence


  A relatively tough, mostly street-based group of young people who regard themselves and may be seen by others as a group that engages in a range of criminal activity and violence, often in conflict with other similar gangs
• Fraternity


  A group of people with similar backgrounds, occupations, interests, or tastes, often involving initiation rites like hazing that can be dangerous
• Republic Act 8049, the Anti-Hazing Law, prohibits physical hazing and requires fraternities, sororities and other organizations to inform school authorities about initiation rites
• Incest abuse


  Sexual contact between persons who are so closely related that a marriage between them is considered illegal, usually an older family member abusing a child or adolescent
• Reasons why incest abuse victims might not report: they may be told it's normal, don't know help is available, or are afraid of what will happen if they tell
• Anti-Hazing Law


  Law that prohibits physical hazing and requires organizations to inform school authorities about initiation rites
• Types of sexual abuse

  • Incest
  • Molestation
  • Rape
• Incest


  • Sexual contact between persons so closely related that marriage between them is considered illegal, usually an older family member abusing a child or adolescent
• Reasons why incest victims may not report

  • Victims may be told it's normal or happens in every family, don't realize it's abuse
  • Victims may not know help is available or who to talk to
  • Victims may be afraid of consequences if they tell
  • Victims may be worried about how people will react
• Molestation


  • Sexual abuse of a person by an adult for sexual pleasure or profit, including fondling, mutual masturbation, sodomy, coitus
• Rape


  • Forced sexual intercourse, including vaginal, anal or oral penetration, that satisfies criteria like one or both people not old enough to consent, one lacking capacity to consent, or one not agreeing to take part
• Types of acts of terror/terrorism


  • State terrorism
  • Bioterrorism
  • Cyberterrorism
  • Ecoterrorism
  • Nuclear terrorism
  • Narcoterrorism
• State terrorism


  • States or governments using force or threat of force, without declaring war, to terrorize citizens and achieve political goals
• Bioterrorism


  • Intentional release of toxic biological agents like viruses, bacteria and toxins to harm and terrorize civilians
• Cyberterrorism


  • Use of information technology to attack civilians and draw attention to terrorists' cause, e.g. disabling emergency systems or hacking important networks
• Ecoterrorism

  • Use of violence in the interests of environmentalism, e.g. destroying property to inflict economic damage on industries seen as harming the environment
• Nuclear terrorism


  • Using nuclear materials as a terrorist tactic, e.g. attacking nuclear facilities, purchasing/building nuclear weapons, or dispersing radioactive materials
• Narcoterrorism


  • Use of violence by drug traffickers to influence governments or prevent anti-drug efforts, e.g. assassinating anti-drug officials
• Verbal abuse


  Form of cruelty involving the use of words to attack, control and cause harm on another person, including angry outbursts, screaming, name-calling, blaming, and brainwashing
• Characteristics of verbal abuse

  • Hurtful and attacks the person's nature and abilities
  • Can be obvious or hidden/subtle
  • Controlling and judgmental
  • Dangerous and causes gradual loss of self-confidence
  • Fickle and throws the victim off balance
• Kidnapping


  Taking away or forcefully moving a person against their will and holding them in unjust captivity, usually for monetary reward/ransom or other benefit
• Abduction

  Using deceit or force to take a person, usually a child, away from their home or relatives, often by a separated parent who feels the child's welfare is at risk