… National strategy and action plans on violence against women The way prevention and repression of gender-based … offence There is no law specifically on violence against women, all forms of gender based violence are addressed as … as a penal offence and therefore registered when women and girls are victims of such practices. Female genital …
… Measures to improve the knowledge of violence against women (VAW) As referred in the most recent gender violence … Portugal (Lisboa et al., 2008), 38 per cent of Portuguese women have experienced physical, psychological and/or sexual … and according to the Portuguese observatory of murdered women, 43 women died and 49 were victims of murder attempts …