… Equality (EIGE) publishes a new report ‘Combating cyber violence against women and girls’ which underlines the urgent … harmonised and mutually exclusive definitions of cyber violence against women and girls (CVAWG) and its forms. … integrated, CVAWG often amplifies (or is a precursor for) violence and victimisation in the physical world. Says EIGE …
… somehow we still have a hard time accepting that online violence is as real as offline violence. Some people believe that when violence is online, it can simply be ignored or shrugged off. …
… and rapid spread of mobile information has made cyber violence against women a growing global problem. However, there is currently no agreed definition of cyber violence against women at EU level and only a few Member States cover some forms of cyber violence against women in their national law. EIGE is …
… analysed the existing research on different forms of cyber violence against women and girls. It assessed the … data on the phenomenon and found that data on cyber violence in the EU is scarce. The report consequently called … data at EU level on the prevalence and harms of cyber violence with indicators to measure the effectiveness of …