Gender-based violence
Gender-based violence remains one of the most pervasive human rights violations of our time.It is rooted in gender inequalities and reinforces them. Gender-based violence harms women, families, communities and society .
EIGE against gender-based violence
There has been an urgent need for comparable data on gender-based violence in the 27 EU Member States and Croatia, which EIGE tries to meet. EIGE aims to support policy makers and all relevant institutions in their efforts to combat and prevent gender-based violence, by providing them with reliable and comparable data and information for effective actions and evidence-based policy making [read more].
Since 2010 EIGE has carried out several ground-breaking studies on gender-based violence, including:
Female Genital Mutilation
- Resources on FGM
- Methods and tools on FGM
- Good practices in combating FGM
- Female genital mutilation in the European Union and Croatia - Report
Domestic Violence
- Resources on domestic violence
- Methods and tools on domestic violence
- Good practices in combating domestic violence
Violence against women
- Review of the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action in the EU Member States: Violence against Women Victim Support Report,
- Factsheet on EIGE’s report “Review of the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action by the EU Member States: Violence against Women Victim Support ”
- Interview with Sylvia Walby on EIGE’s report on victim support
- Database on Beijing indicators: Women and men in the EU – facts and figures: area D Violence Against Women
United to make a change
Drawing on the main findings and recommendations highlighted in its studies, EIGE will continue its commitment in the area of gender-based violence. We hope that our work will effectively support your efforts to prevent and combat gender-based violence in the European Union. We can stop violence only if we act together!
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