Mrs Sesay advised Mrs. Sankoh to put in her request through to the appropriate channels and to monitor it. Mrs. Esther Kamara from Grafton Market asked whether women were allowed to stand as surety. It was made clear that women can stand as surety and bail bond, contrary to the popularly held belief. Often this is carried out by the man on the woman. Physical violence including wife battering, and non-spousal violence.
Psychological violence constitutes some of the other ways men use coercion over women and children.
Some examples include preventing women having access to money or limiting women s access to education and employment. The perpetrator may threaten to kill the woman if she leaves, isolate her from contact with family or friends. He may humiliate the woman in front of her children or in public. Sexual violence includes sexual abuse of female children in the household and marital rape. The low social and economic status of women can be both a cause and a consequence of violence against women.