… This publication summarises the main results of the Gender Equality Index 2015, which provides scores for 2005, 2010 and 2012, for the first time allowing for an assessment of the progress …
… reduce violence against women, first we need to understand the scope of the phenomenon, and for that we need quality data. Reliable and comparable statistics help us to assess the effectiveness of policy measures and services in place, …
… Gender-based violence (GBV) remains a major problem in the European Union: 1 in 5 women, on average, have … but entire families, communities, and society as a whole. The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) supports EU … From 25 November to 10 December 2015, EIGE joins the 16 Days of Activism through its social media, to raise …
… This document lays out the approach that EIGE proposes to take over the next four years to support the work of the European institutions and Member States in …
… threatening or persecuting behaviour which: (1) causes a state of anxiety and fear in the victim(s), or; (2) ingenerates within the victim(s) a motivated fear for his/her own safety or for …
… threatening or persecuting behaviour which: (1) causes a state of anxiety and fear in the victim(s), or; (2) ingenerates within the victim(s) a motivated fear for his/her own safety or for …
… by means of violence, threats or taking advantage of thestate of helplessness of a victim (rape), the applicable punishment is deprivation of liberty for a …
… using violence or threats or by taking advantage of thestate of helplessness of a person, the applicable punishment is deprivation of liberty for a …
… against his will by using physical violence or threatening the immediate use thereof, or by otherwise depriving of a possibility of resistance or by taking advantage of the helpless state of the victimshall be punished by imprisonment for a …
… A person’s actions against the other person’s will to satisfy the former person’s sexual desires through anal, oral or … of resistance or by taking advantage of the helpless state of the victim. …
… The act of sexual nature other than rape with a person, … with constraint, or rendering it impossible for the person to defend or to express consent or taking advantage of an incapacitated state of a person. …
… Experts from across Europe have visited EIGE for the first International Organisations' Experts' Meeting on … of gender equality in the EU, identify and monitor thestate of play and progress at Member State level. EIGE is cooperating with international …
… The European Institute for Gender Equality and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights sign a cooperation agreement in line with the new EU strategy for gender equality 2010-2015. EIGE's …
… 180.000 women in Europe are estimated to undergo or face the danger of this harmful procedure every year. The reasons for practicing female genital mutilation (FGM) … are based a mix of cultural, social and religious factors. The European Parliament resolution of 24 March 2009 on …
… Female genital mutilation (FGM) continues to be one of the most brutal and at the same time most tabooed forms of gender-based violence. On 10May 2012 experts from the EU Member States met in Vilnius to discuss the findings …