Refers to macro-level or overarching rules, norms, routines, patterns of attitudes and behaviour in institutions and other societal structures that represent obstacles to groups or individuals in achieving the same rights and opportunities that are available to the majority of the population.

Concerns individual prejudicial or unfair behaviour to others based on their status or characteristics.

People or groups of people that experience higher risk of harm, abuse, disadvantage, and discrimination

A person, usually a relative, parent, spouse, partner, child, or friend, who provides regular and substantial voluntary care, often in lieu of a paid care worker, to someone who is disabled, severely ill, frail or has a mental health problem.

is defined as lessening unfair differences in the status, treatment and outcomes of different people and groups in one or more aspects of their lives (e.g. economic, social, cultural, political and/or environmental).

Opportunities for work that is productive and delivers a fair income, security in the workplace and social protection for families, better prospects for personal development and social integration, freedom for people to express their concerns, organise and participate in the decisions that affect their lives and equality of opportunity and treatment for all women and men’

Marginalised populations are groups and communities that experience discrimination and exclusion (social, political and economic) because of unequal power relationships across economic, political, social and cultural dimensions.

This refers to unfair differences in the extent to which different people and groups are able to realise their human rights and freedoms.

Human rights are universal and inalienable rights and freedoms that belong to everyone. Based on the principles of fairness, equality and respect, they reflect the conditions that all people need to both flourish as human beings and participate as members of society.

Financial abuse often involves or is associated with: someone taking or misusing someone else’s money or belongings for their own gain; harming, deriving or disadvantaging the victim; controlling someone's purchases or access to money; often associated with other forms of abuse; doesn’t always involve a crime life theft or fraud.