… pandemic has exposed how common this serious human rights abuse is and how insufficient the measures to fight it still … have legal definitions of hate crimes (against ethnic and sexual minorities for example). A workable legal definition …
… concern, with 20 % of young women having experienced sexual harassment online and four in ten women journalists … having censored themselves after incidents of online abuse. EIGE recommends that the EU accedes to the Istanbul …
… with every third woman in the EU affected by physical or sexual violence. Cyber violence is of increasing concern, with 20 % of young women having experienced sexual violence online and 40 % of journalists self-censoring … EU-level instrument to combat cyber violence can result in abuse going unpunished. Although there has been indisputable …
… male perpetration of physical violence and psychological abuse, such as emotional and verbal abuse (81). As the Council of Europe recommends, EU Member … age, religion, immigration status, ethnicity and sexual orientation (86). The personal characteristics of a …
… gender identity or expression, ethnicity, race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, residence status, … age, religion, immigration status, ethnicity and sexual orientation (93). Risk assessment tools and practices … face increased risk of violence and negative impacts of abuse, not because their ethnicity causes an increase in the …
… for intimate partner violence that reflect patterns of abuse and behaviour associated with coercive control (102), … account, including: psychological/emotional/verbal abuse; sexualabuse/coercive sex; extreme and/or violent jealousy … used to describe the criminal offence of rape, including ‘sexual assault’, ‘sexual violence’, ‘sexual offence’, ‘sexual …
… transgender people had experienced either a physical or a sexual attack or the threat of violence in the previous five … with 44 % of trans women reporting experience of physical/sexual attack or the threat of violence at least three times … likely to face hate-motivated harassment, including verbal abuse, humiliation and social exclusion. On average, one in …
… to rely on themselves, to act ‘tough’ through substance abuse or suppressing emotions or pain, and to demonstrate … their heterosexuality by engaging with multiple sexual partners (Kågesten et al., 2016). As a result, men in … as women and four times more likely to die of alcohol abuse and drug dependence [1] . Similarly, significantly more …
… transgender people had experienced either a physical or a sexual attack or the threat of violence in the previous … with 44 % of trans women reporting experience of physical/sexual attack or the threat of violence at least three times … likely to face hate-motivated harassment, including verbal abuse, humiliation and social exclusion. On average, one in …
… Trafficking for sexual exploitation is the most commonly reported form of … women. 95% of registered victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation in the EU are women or girls. Trafficking … on the matter. “Our research shows that trafficking for sexual exploitation is rooted in gender inequalities. …
… they think women often make up or exaggerate claims of abuse or rape. This number is twice as big as the EU average. … do not disclose violence to anyone. Recent allegations of sexual harassment in Hollywood and European Parliament …
… Parliament has put forward a resolution on combating sexual harassment and abuse in the parliament and the wider EU. It calls for a zero-tolerance approach towards sexual harassment, encourages victims to speak out and calls …