… of lockdown measures has reminded us just how difficult and dangerous it is for the women who live with a violent … important matter of care and who takes on this essential work, whether it’s paid or unpaid has also received a lot … are also heavily involved in other forms of essential care work, such as informal caring for people with a disability or …
… missing. To properly measure the extent of violence and predict what will happen in a crisis, we need to know … and coordinated. Police, health and social services should work together to identify women at particularly high risk, … approach to ensure no one falls through the cracks. Family, friends and neighbours should check in with those at …
… one woman was killed every day by an intimate partner or family member in the EU on average in 2016 [1] . To help … police prevent repeated acts of intimate partner violence and save lives, the European Institute for Gender Equality … a risk assessment guide for police. “With proper training, and allocation of resources where they are most needed, our …
… genital mutilation on 6 February. “It is hard to imagine and to accept that today some girls in the EU are still … most horrible forms of violence. When girls return to the family’s home country this risk becomes real because of the … female genital mutilation in the EU Read more about EIGE’s work on estimating the number of girls at risk of female …
… Strong laws and prosecution are powerful deterrent factors when it comes to female genital mutilation (FGM) in the EU. Family members fear the consequences of the law more than the … of not having it done. However, in order for the laws to work, police and justice must enforce them and prosecute …
… EU but we still do not know its full extent. More reliable and comparable data are urgently needed to ensure that policy … administrative data takes the Institute’s previous work on the topic one step further. It aims to improve the … States, the word ‘domestic violence’ is used and the term ‘family violence or ‘violence in the family’ is used in …