… The Women Inspiring Europe 2011 Calendar features Comfort Momoh … only midwife in the UK to carry out special procedures on women who have suffered from Female Genital Mutulation (FGM). …
… FGM under national actions plans on violence against women and/or gender equality. Ten Member States have … Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence enters into force, it will become …
… Equality between women and men is a fundamental value of the European Union … in its policy document “The Roadmap for Equality between Women and Men 2006-2010” and in the Action Plan of the Commission Strategy for Equality between Women and Men 2010-2015 that followed. To implement these, …
… and most difficult to combat forms of violence against women and girls. The main objectives of the study are to fill … FGM among professionals who are in contact with girls and women at risk of FGM and victims of FGM is insufficient. The … genital mutilation is a violation of the human rights of women and girls and a cruel form of gender-based violence. …
… Ahead of International Women’s Day on 8 March, European Commission Vice-President … – thought to have affected several hundred thousand women in the EU. The Commissioners were joined by Members of … States' activities to raise awareness of violence against women and a further EUR 11.4 million for NGOs and others …
… providing a composite indicator of direct violence against women, based on the data on violence against women collected by the European Union Agency for Fundamental … Rights through the EU-wide Survey on Violence against Women. The results of the Gender Equality Index show that …