Any act which causes physical harm as a result of unlawful physical force. Physical violence can take the form of, among others, serious and minor assault, deprivation of liberty and manslaughter
… EIGE’s latest report on coercive control and psychological violence across the EU Member States proves high prevalence. … to be done. What is coercive control and psychological violence? The following explanations characterise the nature … conduct typically characterized by frequent, but low-level physical abuse and sexual coercion in combination with …
… were you wearing that day?” exhibition on gender-based violence, organised by the European Commission on 16 November … that somehow tries to put the blame on victims for the violence they have faced. No doubt you will have heard this … countries. The majority require some other element, like physicalviolence on the part of the rapist. At the European …
… somehow we still have a hard time accepting that online violence is as real as offline violence. Some people believe … stalking or violence from an intimate partner in the physical world are also often victims of ‘online’ violence … online spaces, which suffer from less regulation than the physical world. As more and more of our lives move online, …
… 31 % of women in the European Union have experienced physicalviolence by either a partner or a non-partner since the age of 15, and 7 % of women experienced physicalviolence by anyone in the 12 months before the …
… Spikes in domestic violence reports during Covid-19 lockdowns have been a sad … data. EIGE defines intimate partner violence as: “physical, sexual, psychological or economic violence that … of a woman than to prove a case of economic violence. Physical, sexual and psychological violence are penalised in …
… Any form of physical (e.g. intentional assault and battery), sexual (rape … rape), psychological (stalking and insults) or economic violence (e.g. abandonment of family) between spouses or …
… to have been given, if the crime is committed by violence, coercion or deceit, or is made possible by the infirmity or physical or mental impairment of the victim. …
… In Bulgaria, intimate partner violence is included under "domestic violence": any act of physical, mental, sexual, emotional or economic violence and …
… In Cyprus, intimate partner violence is recognised only within the context of "violence in the family", which means any act, omission or behaviour which causes physical, sexual or mental injury to any member of the family …
… In Greece, "domestic violence" is the commission of one of the following offences … and Articles 299 and 311 of the Criminal Code): Domestic physical injury Domestic illegal violence and threat Rape and abuse in lewdness (lechery) …