Individuals who have been subjected to severe physical or psychological abuse intentionally inflicted at the instigation or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity.

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Survivors and families impacted by any form of violence against Indigenous women and girls, including sexual assault, child abuse, domestic violence, bullying and harassment, suicide, and self-harm. Indigenous women experience disproportionately high rates of hate motivated violence, accounting for almost a third of all female homicide victims in Canada, even though they make up just 5 per cent of the country's female population. The National Inquiry on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls was launched by the government of Canada in 2016 and was completed 2019 concluded that the violence "amounts to a race-based genocide of Indigenous Peoples" that especially targets women, girls and members of the LGBTQ2S+ community.

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Individuals (including adults and children, males and females) who have been abducted, sold, recruited under fraud or pretence or otherwise brought under the control of another person, and forced, by means of threats, intimidation, violence or other forms of coercion, into unpaid or underpaid labour, servitude, prostitution or forced marriage, either domestically within their own country or internationally. Other forms of exploitation include provision of children for illegal adoption, provision of women as mail-order brides, and subjection of individuals of all ages to the forced removal of organs.

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