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  • Gender equality and youth: opportunities and risks of digitalisation – Main report

    EIGE’s research shows the many ways digital technologies are benefiting young people in access to learning, friendship, information and actions for social change. It also shows that aggressive behaviour online is anticipated and normalised. For the EU to harness the potential of digital technologies for youth mobilisation, diminishing the power of gender stereotypes online and promoting the diversity of voices...

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    Publication date
    28 Mar 2019
    Available in: EN
    Gender equality and youth: opportunities and risks of digitalisation – Main report
  • Understanding Psychological Violence against Women: The need for harmonised definitions and data in the EU

    Psychological violence is a common form of gender-based violence that includes any intentional course of conduct that seriously impairs another person’s psychological integrity through coercion or threats.

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    Publication date
    02 Aug 2023
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    Understanding Psychological Violence against Women: The need for harmonised definitions and data in the EU
  • Understanding Economic Violence against Women: The need for harmonised definitions and data in the EU

    Economic violence is a common form of violence against women statistically defined as ‘any act or behaviour which causes economic harm to an individual’. Economic violence is rooted in gender inequality and reinforced by traditional gender norms.

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    • Economic and financial affairs
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    02 Aug 2023
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    Understanding Economic Violence against Women: The need for harmonised definitions and data in the EU
  • Actioning solutions where gender-based violence and crisis meet

    EIGE’s Director provided the opening remarks at a conference held at the Lithuanian Parliament in Vilnius on Violence against Women in Times of Crisis: Challenges and Potential Solutions under the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

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    Publication date
    26 May 2023
  • Measuring violence against women in the Western Balkans and Türkiye

    Gender-based violence EIGE supports EU candidate countries and a potential candidate in the development of first composite indicators for measuring violence against women. This activity aims to contribute towards a better development of gender statistics and towards establishing harmonised administrative data on gender-based violence. The domain of violence of the Gender Equality Index provides a set of composite indicators that...

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  • Closing the gaps: How data accelerates progress on gender equality  

    EIGE’s new report for the Western Balkans and Türkiye provides guidance for combatting violence against women.

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    • Health
    • Justice
    • Violence
    Publication date
    03 Mar 2023
  • Strengthening data systems on violence against women in the Western Balkans and Türkiye

    Violence against women and girls and gender-based violence is a cause and effect of gender inequality and the power imbalance between women and men, and one of the most widespread violations of human rights. This deeply entrenched phenomenon requires a coordinated and targeted prevention and policy response based on reliable and comparable data and evidence. Over the past years, EU...

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    Publication date
    02 Mar 2023
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    Strengthening data systems on violence against women in the Western Balkans and Türkiye
  • EU rights and equality agency heads: EU countries must work together to eradicate violence against women

    As EU countries grapple with a new wave of Covid-19, police, media and NGOs continue to report on increasing rates of violence against women and girls. The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) and the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) call on the EU and all Member States to redouble their efforts to protect women's rights and mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women with concrete action.

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    Publication date
    25 Nov 2021
    Quotes by EIGE Director Carlien Scheele and FRA Director Michael O'Flaherty calling for concrete action to stop violence against women
  • Understanding intimate partner violence in the European Union: The essential need for administrative data collection

    Intimate partner violence (IPV) is the most common form of violence against women and the most extreme form of gender discrimination. It poses a threat to the fundamental rights to dignity, liberty, security, health and, eventually, the lives of women. EU Member States have not established a common definition for IPV, which means it is understood and measured differently across...

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    • Health
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    Publication date
    15 Feb 2023
    Available in: EN
    Understanding intimate partner violence in the European Union: The essential need for administrative data collection
  • Understanding intimate partner femicide in the European Union: The essential need for administrative data collection

    Femicide is an extreme form of gender-based violence, defined broadly as ‘the killing of a woman or girl because of her gender’. EU and international institutions use various terms to refer to femicide, including ‘gender-related killing of women’ and ‘feminicide’. In 2020, 47 000 women and girls worldwide were killed by their intimate partners or other family members. In 2019...

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    Publication date
    15 Feb 2023
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    Understanding intimate partner femicide in the European Union: The essential need for administrative data collection
  • Understanding rape in the European Union: The essential need for administrative data collection

    Rape is an unlawful sexual act and a harmful form of sexual violence that disproportionately affects women and girls. Rape occurs in the absence of consent, the voluntary agreement between participants to engage in sexual activity. EIGE recognises the need for systematic data collection on the prevalence and frequency of rape in the EU, the effects of sexual violence on...

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    Publication date
    15 Feb 2023
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    Understanding rape in the European Union: The essential need for administrative data collection
  • Hidden in plain sight: improving legal responses for ‘invisible’ victims of femicide

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    • Health
    • Justice
    • Youth
    • Violence
    Publication date
    07 Feb 2023
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