Physical, sexual, psychological or economic violence between current or former spouses as well as current or former partners. It constitutes a form of violence which affects women disproportionately and which is therefore distinctly gendered.
Statistical definition
Any act of physical, sexual, psychological or economic violence that occurs between former or current spouses or partners, whether or not the perpetrator shares or has shared the same residence with the victim.
… Scheele delivered this speech at an event on gender-based violence organised by the Venice Office of the Council of … our work on gender-based violence, we focus especially on intimatepartnerviolence, and its most severe form: femicide. We …
… 444 women across 10 EU Member States were killed by their intimate partners in 2020. EIGE has released a package to … any gendered risk factors such as dependence or previous violence. Laws and data collection practices are slowly … violence in the EU The Covid-19 pandemic and intimatepartnerviolence against women in the EU …
… Violence and power imbalances adversely affect the mental … violence also takes many forms: domestic violence, intimatepartnerviolence, sexual violence, forced and early marriage, …
… Gender-based violence is a widespread phenomenon in the European Union, … Union . As in the previous study, this report focuses on intimatepartnerviolence as a subset of gender-based violence. This …
… on health: poor mental health, a rise in gender-based violence and the provision of SRH services in a crisis. … Webster, 2020), which contributed to the global surge in intimatepartnerviolence (Graham-Harrison et al., 2020; WHO, 2020b), …
… women and girls at home with their abusers. If victims of violence had legal and social support networks, these were … plan to address issues arising from an increased level of intimatepartnerviolence, but in only three countries did the plan or …
… While violence affects all women, some groups face a higher risk … vulnerability to violence, especially from a close or intimatepartner. About a third of women with disabilities (34 %) …
… The domain of violence cannot be updated regularly because of the serious … EIGE defines femicide as ‘[the] killing of a woman by an intimatepartner and the death of a woman as a result of a practice …
… and central Europe particularly affected. Domain of violence Regular updates to the domain of violence are a … measures to tackle COVID-19 have resulted in a surge of intimatepartnerviolence against women. The risk of violence is …