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  • Measuring femicide in Slovenia

    Data collection systems vary widely across EU Member States, as they draw on various sources. To improve the collection of administrative data on femicide, EIGE has been working to establish indicators that can harmonise data collection processes across Member States’ jurisdictions. EIGE has collected information from a wide variety of stakeholders through a questionnaire sent to official data providers and...

    Measuring femicide in Slovenia
  • Measuring femicide in Spain

    Data collection systems vary widely across EU Member States, as they draw on various sources. To improve the collection of administrative data on femicide, EIGE has been working to establish indicators that can harmonise data collection processes across Member States’ jurisdictions. EIGE has collected information from a wide variety of stakeholders through a questionnaire sent to official data providers and...

    Measuring femicide in Spain
  • Measuring femicide in Sweden

    Data collection systems vary widely across EU Member States, as they draw on various sources. To improve the collection of administrative data on femicide, EIGE has been working to establish indicators that can harmonise data collection processes across Member States’ jurisdictions. EIGE has collected information from a wide variety of stakeholders through a questionnaire sent to official data providers and...

    Measuring femicide in Sweden
  • Measuring femicide in the Netherlands

    Data collection systems vary widely across EU Member States, as they draw on various sources. To improve the collection of administrative data on femicide, EIGE has been working to establish indicators that can harmonise data collection processes across Member States’ jurisdictions. EIGE has collected information from a wide variety of stakeholders through a questionnaire sent to official data providers and...

    Measuring femicide in the Netherlands
  • Measuring femicide in the United Kingdom

    Data collection systems vary widely across EU Member States, as they draw on various sources. To improve the collection of administrative data on femicide, EIGE has been working to establish indicators that can harmonise data collection processes across Member States’ jurisdictions. EIGE has collected information from a wide variety of stakeholders through a questionnaire sent to official data providers and...

    Measuring femicide in the United Kingdom
  • The costs of gender-based violence in the European Union

    Gender-based violence is a widespread phenomenon in the European Union, affecting women disproportionally – in 2012, one in three women aged 15 or over experienced physical and/or sexual violence. Although a price cannot be put on women’s lives and suffering, estimating the lost economic output and public spending on health, legal, social and specialised services with regard to gender-based violence...

    The costs of gender-based violence in the European Union
  • EIGE's indicators on intimate partner violence, rape and femicide: EU state of play

    According to a 2014 study by the Fundamental Rights Agency, 31 % of women in the European Union have experienced physical violence by either a partner or a non-partner since the age of 15, and 7 % of women experienced physical violence by anyone in the 12 months before the survey interview. Given the size of the phenomenon, gender-based violence...

    EIGE’s indicators on intimate  partner violence, rape and  femicide: EU state of play
  • EIGE's indicators on intimate partner violence, rape and femicide: Recommendations to improve data quality, availability and comparability

    This report provides recommendations to the Member States of the European Union and the United Kingdom to improve the quality, availability and comparability of data on intimate partner violence against women, based on a thorough review of the work on the 13 police and justice indicators carried out by EIGE since 2017. These indicators were selected based on their planning...

    EIGE's indicators on intimate partner violence, rape and femicide: Recommendations to improve data quality, availability and com
  • Estimation of girls at risk of female genital mutilation in the European Union: Denmark, Spain, Luxembourg and Austria

    Since 2012, the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) has mapped the situation of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the European Union, identified good practices to tackle it and developed a methodology to estimate the number of women and girls at risk. This common methodology was originally presented in 2015, pilot tested in three Member States (EIGE, 2015), further refined...

    Estimation of girls at risk of female genital mutilation in the European Union: Denmark, Spain, Luxembourg and Austria
  • The Covid-19 pandemic and intimate partner violence against women in the EU

    This study offers a preliminary overview of the measures undertaken across the EU to support victims of violence during the Covid-19 outbreak (from March until the end of September 2020), identifies examples of promising practices and provides initial recommendations for the EU and Member States on how to better support victims during the pandemic, as well as in other potential...

    The Covid-19 pandemic and intimate partner violence against women in the EU.
  • Female genital mutilation: How many girls are at risk in Austria?

    The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) estimates that 12–18 % of girls (735–1 083 girls) aged 0–18 are at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) in Austria out of a total population of 5 910 girls aged 0–18 in 2019 and originating from countries where FGM is practised. Of these 5 910 migrant girls, 38 % (2 243) are...

    Female genital mutilation: How many girls are at risk in Austria?
  • Female genital mutilation: How many girls are at risk in Denmark?

    The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) estimates that 11–21 % of girls (1 408–2 568 girls) aged 0–18 are at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) in Denmark, out of a total population of 12 462 girls aged 0–18 in 2019 originating from countries where FGM is practised. Of these 12 462 migrant girls, 82 % (10 269) are...

    Female genital mutilation: How many girls are at risk in Denmark?