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Table 2 Nature and scope of reported violence

From: Sexual violence and sub-Saharan migrants in Morocco: a community-based participatory assessment using respondent driven sampling

Types of violence (*)

Total acts (n = 548)

100%

Emotional/psychological violence

101

18.43%

Confinement

36

6.57%

Threats

35

6.39%

• of which with weapons

23

4.20%

Verbal abuse

10

1.82%

Humiliation

2

0.36%

Combination

18

3.28%

Physical violence

122

22.26%

Singular non-life threatening

12

2.19%

Multiple non-life threatening

89

16.24%

Singular life threatening

1

0.18%

Multiple life threatening

6

1.09%

Killing

2

0.36%

Combination

12

2.19%

Sexual violence

246

44.89%

Rape

141

25.73%

• of which gang and/or multiple rape

111

20.26%

Sexual abuse

46

8.39%

Sexual harassment

33

6.02%

Sexual exploitation

24

4.38%

Sexual torture

2

0.36%

Socio-economic violence

79

14.42%

Stealing

73

13.32%

Refusal of first aid services

2

0.36%

Combination

4

0.73%

TOTAL

548

100.00%

  1. (*)Classified according to the main types of sexual and gender-based violence as defined by UNHCR (2003).