Types of violence

Any material, non-accidental act that inflicts harm on a woman through the use of physical force, substances, weapons, or objects, which may or may not cause injuries, whether internal, external, or both.

Those behaviors that damage the self-esteem of students through acts of discrimination based on their sex, age, social or academic status, limitations, or physical characteristics, inflicted on them by teachers.

It is the most extreme form of gender-based violence against women, resulting from the violation of their human rights in both the public and private spheres. It consists of a set of misogynistic behaviors that can lead to social and state impunity and can culminate in homicide and other forms of violent death of women.

Any act of sexual content that threatens, degrades, or harms the victim's body or sexuality, or both, that violates their freedom, dignity, sexual safety, or physical integrity, and that involves the abuse of power and supremacy over the victim by denigrating them and conceiving them as an object.

Any act or omission that damages a woman's psychological or emotional stability, including neglect, abandonment, repeated neglect, jealousy, insults, humiliation, devaluation, marginalization, indifference, infidelity, destructive comparisons, rejection, restriction of self-determination, and threats, which lead the victim to depression, isolation, devaluation of her self-esteem, and even suicide.

Any act or omission that affects the victim's survival. This can include the transformation, removal, destruction, restriction, retention, or diversion of objects, personal documents, property, valuables, property rights, or economic resources intended to satisfy the victim's needs, and may include damage to the victim's common or personal property.

Any action or omission by the abuser that affects the victim's finances. It includes restrictions meant to control her income, as well as being paid less than others for equal work at the same workplace. Failure to meet family support obligations is also considered economic violence.

Unlawfully refusing to hire the victim or to respect her job security or general working conditions; belittling her work; threats, intimidation, humiliation, and exploitation; preventing women from taking the breastfeeding breaks guaranteed by law; and any form of gender-based discrimination.

Any action or omission by medical or administrative personnel belonging to the public and private health services of the State Health System that violates the guiding principles set forth in Article 3 of this law, or that physically or psychologically harms, injures, discriminates against, or demeans women during pregnancy, childbirth, or the postpartum period; as well as medical negligence, denial of service, and the violation or limitation of women's sexual and reproductive rights.

It is the action or omission that, in the political, public or private sphere, has the purpose or result of limiting, annulling or undermining the effective exercise of a woman's political-electoral rights, access to the full exercise of the powers inherent to her position or function of public power and is manifested in pressure, persecution, harassment, stalking, coercion, vexation, discrimination, threats or deprivation of liberty or life based on gender.

It is the aggression reflected in any expressive act, verbal or physical, motivated or guided by discrimination based on gender, that seeks to coerce the harassed person with harassment or demands that intentionally place them in a risky situation, even in those cases where there is no subordination, but the harasser commits an abusive exercise of power that puts the victim in a state of defenselessness.

An action or omission that occurs when a person causes or inflicts physical or psychological harm on a woman, using information and communication technologies, primarily violating her dignity, privacy, freedom, and private life.