Cultural abuse occurs when someone causes you harm as a result of practices that are part of her or his culture, religion or tradition.
Cultural abuse includes, but is not limited to, the following:
- Committing “honour” or other crimes against women in some parts of the world, where women especially may be physically harmed, shunned, maimed or killed for;
- Lynching or stoning;
- Banishment;
- Abandonment of an older person at a hospital by family;
- Not allowing someone to leave a relationship or get a divorce;
- Female circumcision;
- Marriage-rape;
- Bride kidnapping;
- Sex trafficking/slavery; and,
- Murder.
