Review of the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action in the EU Member States This publication aims to support policymakers and relevant institutions in their efforts to combat and prevent domestic violence by providing them with reliable and comparable data and information for effective, evidence-based decisions and policy improvement. Facts and figures: Area D. Violence against Women
This publication presents good practices on combating female genital mutilation identified during the implementation of the ‘Study to map the current situation and trends of female genital mutilation in 27 EU Member States and Croatia. The consortium composed of the Ghent University — ICRH and E.A.D.C. (Yellow Window Management Consultants) was commissioned to carry out the study in 2012. Access...
This publication summarises the interim findings of the two-year study on ‘Gender training in the European Union: Mapping, research and stakeholders’ engagement (2012-2013)‘. It maps the policies and practices of gender training in the European Union. Country fact sheets Belgium Greece Lithuania Portugal Bulgaria Spain Luxembourg Romania Czech Republic France Hungary Slovenia Denmark Croatia Malta Slovakia Germany Italy Netherlands Finland...
This is a summary of the conceptual and methodological issues of the ‘ Study for the development of the basic structure of a Gender Equality Index for the European Union’ produced by Janneke Plantenga, Colette Fagan, Friederike Maier and Chantal Remery (2010), commissioned by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE). The theoretical and empirical findings of the study will...
Mainstreaming Gender into the Policies and the Programmes of the Institutions of European Union and EU Member States This publication intends to present the EIGE’s approach to collecting, processing and disseminating good practices in gender mainstreaming.This publication is the result of contributions made by the EIGE’s Thematic Network on Gender Mainstreaming, Expert’s Forum members, EIGE staff and the findings of...
The publication ‘Country profiles’ is a complementary publication to the main report on the Gender Equality Index. The country profiles offer a snapshot of national contexts, enhancing the usefulness of the Gender Equality Index scores and supporting their interpretation as a tool for pol icy-makers and other users. In addition, this publication contains other contextual variables that are relevant to...
The publication includes the Gender Equality Index scores for 2005, 2010 and 2012, allowing for an assessment of the progress made in the pursuit of gender equality in the EU and individual Member States over time. Moreover, the present update makes a first attempt at populating the satellite domain of violence.
European Institute for Gender Equality presents its new report In the study ‘ Estimation of girls at risk of female genital mutilation in the European Union ’, the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) develops a methodology to estimate the number of girls at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the EU Member States. This methodology has been pilot-tested...
