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.
… EIGE recognises the various forms of femicide committed againstwomen and girls as ‘the most severe manifestation of gender-based violence’. Various terms are used by the European Union (EU) …
… to a 2014 study by the Fundamental Rights Agency, 31 % of women in the European Union have experienced physical violence by either a partner or a non-partner since the age of 15, and 7 % of women experienced physical violence by anyone in the 12 months before the survey …
… measures undertaken across the EU to support victims of violence during the Covid-19 outbreak (from March until the … of governmental strategies on prevention of gender-based violence and on crisis preparedness. Further reading EIGE's … gender equality gains EIGE's resources on gender-based violence …
… Member States have obligations to eliminate discrimination againstwomen and ensure that they fully enjoy their human rights. … Convention will create a comprehensive legal framework on violenceagainstwomen, once it is ratified by all Member …
… key to understanding the scale of intimate partner violence in the EU and monitoring progress in tackling it. … evidence-based measures and targeted responses to violenceagainstwomen and thereby improving the implementation of policies at …
… Intimate partner violence is a recurrent form of violence affecting women in the European Union. Efforts to combat this form of … commitments of Member States to fight violenceagainstwomen, as defined in Directive 2012/29/EU (the …
… Intimate partner violence is a recurrent form of violence affecting women in the European Union. Efforts to combat this form of … Member States' international commitments to fight violenceagainstwomen, as defined in Directive 2012/29/EU (the …
… data collection on rape, femicide and intimate partner violence. The objective is not to achieve perfect … and ensure that key data on these three forms of violence are available. Achieving this goal would provide an … Read more EIGE's work on data collection on violenceagainstwomen …
… Violenceagainstwomen is rooted in women’s unequal status in society, and … of data on the prevalence of rape and intimate partner violence (IPV) is key to establishing and evaluating …