Description
Cyber violence against women is a new and fast-paced dimension of inequality for women and girls, which pushes women out of the (digital) public sphere, disempowers them to express their opinion, and violates their human rights. Despite the prevalence of the phenomenon, CVAWG remains under-reported in the EU and there is a significant lack of comprehensive and comparable data.
To date, cyber VAWG has not been fully conceptualised, defined or legislated against at EU level. In order to better understand the nature and prevalence of cyber VAWG, EIGE has conducted desk research that aimed to define certain harmful forms of cyber VAWG, identify and analyse existing research and gaps in research, assess the availability of survey and administrative data on the phenomenon, and identify relevant good practices in EU Member States.
