Violence is an enormous range of actions, beyond physical and sexual which includes psychologically, emotionally and verbal abuse, as well as economic/financial and spiritual coercion and criminal harassment and stalking; sexual harassment at work, murdered women e.t.c. Violence does not happen in a vacuum but because women 's inequality still exists. It is also linked to human right and it is huge, it comprise of many ranges of actions. The violence against women turned from a private issue to a public issue. Statistically, “¼ women (general), 69% are assaulted by men that they know, 83% of women with disabilities experience sexual abuse, 8 in 10 Aboriginal women in Ontario reported having experienced sexual violence, only 6% of all sexual assaults are reported to police, Women ages 14-24 = largest “target group”” (Consent slide). Women 's words were often ignored and are blamed for whatever happened to them. My main focus in this essay is to talk about Aboriginal women and women of colour experiences in …show more content…
The term 'race ' is controversial and there is no definite definitions and lots of interpretation and meanings that change over time. People are divided according to a common concept of characterism and no biological criteria. We cannot sue gene to differentiate people because there are more similarities among these people – there are 85 percent of human genetic diversity within groups. Race is not a biological category but is social – it divides people according to a set of characteristics that are socially related. It is one of the keys that leads to discrimination and violence towards people especially the women. “Degrading stereotypes also render racialized women’s experiences of violence invisible, especially in relation to high‐status White victims ” (Gilchrist 2010, 4). The black females hardly made it to the front cover of the news but at the back or not at all when there is a crime violence issue about them. Blacks that were underrepresented as victims were also over-represented as perpetrators. “Women of colour maybe more vulnerable to sexual assault because of racist sexual stereotypes, and these stereotypes on the part of the police and the courts mean they may have less access to justice” (Assault 2003,