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Definition of violence against women

Violation of human rights and a form of discrimination against women including all acts of gender-based violence that result in, or are likely to result in, physical, sexual, psychological or economic harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion, or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.

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  • EU Side Event "Trafficking of women and girls as a form of violence against women: the EU response"

    … European Union's framework for addressing trafficking of women and girls as a form of violence against women. It will bring together EU Member States, EU …

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  • Hitting the spot - Safeguarding the mental health of victims of domestic violence

    … Improve Reduce - Diminishing the mental health impact of violence against women by training law enforcement agents" Prompted by the …

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  • Conference on combating domestic violence against women in the EU

    … The European Conference on Violence Against Women aims at the  review of the progress in the EU and the …

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  • Eradicating domestic violence

    … The conference " Eradicating domestic violence ", will be held on Friday, 21 September 2012, from … The  EESC  already issued an opinion on Domestic violence against women in 2006, highlighting civil society's concern about …

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  • Journalist Thematic Network, Nicosia

    … on two important topics that EIGE is working on: 1)  Violence against Women  and 2)  Resource & Documentation Centre  (RDC) that …

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  • 57th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)

    … fifty-seventh session  of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in … Theme: Elimination and prevention of all forms of  violence against women and girls Review Theme: The  equal sharing of …

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  • Fourth meeting of the Working group on Beijing indicators

    … selected for review by the forthcoming Presidencies– “ Violence against Women ” and “ Women and the Media ”. …

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  • Exchange of good practice - Awareness raising on violence against women

    … February 2012  and it will focus on  awareness raising on violence against women . The UK and Greece will present their prevention …

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  • 2nd World Conference of Women’s Shelters

    … The  2nd World Conference of Women’s Shelters  will bring together activists and advocates … how their shelters and safe spaces are helping victims of violence and working to end  violence against women . …

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  • Conference on Violence Against Women

    … The Conference on Violence Against Women was devoted to discuss the issue and the future … and opinions about the need for future Strategy on violence against women shared. During the Conference EIGE …

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  • Joining efforts towards Gender Equality in the EU 2010 - 2015

    … moment when a new five year  Strategy for Equality between Women and Men  has been recently announced, the … workshops: Equality in decision-making Gender-based violence Men and gender equality Gender statistics in the … the labour market” statistics " Measuring discrimination against women: The Social Institutions and Gender Index …

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  • Experts meeting on gender-based violence

    … 11 Member States had their first meeting on gender-based violence. The participants discussed EIGE’s role in the light of EU Strategy on Equality between Women and Men (2010-2015) and how EIGE could compliment the … work and support the Member States in their fight against violence against women. The need for harmonized data …

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  • EIGE shows red card to violence

    … to join the institute’s new social initiative regarding violence against women “ Show red card to violence ” (Saca Tarjeta Roja al …

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  • Gender-Based Violence Experts Meet

    … today drew in Europe's top experts on  gender-based violence . Practitioners and researchers from a number of EU … and map existing data and resources on sexual violence against women in the European Union. The main objective of this study …

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  • GWS 2022 : 9th International Conference on Gender & Women's Studies 2022

    … 9th International Conference on Gender & Women’s Studies 2022 28-29 July 2022 | IN-PERSON CONFERENCE … & ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN WOMEN & JUSTICE ISSUES GENDER AND SEXUAL …

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  • Marvow German Workshop - 24 January 2022

    … Violence against older women* usually remains invisible, unrecognized and thoughtless. This violence is a serious social problem and the extent and …

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  • #ResponsibleTogether Campaign 2021

    … raise awareness on societal racism and ending gender-based violence in ALL communities. We acknowledge that reasons for … male entitlement are global issues at the core of violence against women. Migrant men of all backgrounds and non-migrant men are …

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  • Consultation on Mapping Cyber Violence in the EU-27

    … Cyber violence against women and girls is an evolving new dimension to gender-based violence grounded in the increased use of digital …

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  • 13th Regional IPA meeting of EU candidate countries and potential candidates

    … Gender Equality Index in the EU and the region, data of women and men in decision making, Guidelines on strengthening data system on violence against women. Future priorities for EIGE’s next IPA project …

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  • Release of the Gender Equality Index for Serbia 2021

    … focus on digitalisation and analyses the situation of violence against women. A new set of indicators is presented so the value for …

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