Violence against women is rooted in women’s unequal status in society, and that status reflects the unbalanced distribution of social, political, and economic power among women and men in society. It is one of the most pervasive human rights violations of our time and a form of discrimination that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, psychological...
Violence against women (VAW) is a violation of human rights. Its very nature deprives women of their ability to enjoy fundamental freedoms. Increasingly over the last decade, EU Member States have announced policies, and to a lesser degree services, intended to reduce or eliminate VAW. These policies are built, explicitly or not, on theories of change reflecting causal assumptions that...
Violence against women is a daily reality for many women throughout the European Union and across the world. Mostly it is committed by men known to them. It is rooted in power inequalities between women and men. Far too often, it goes unnoticed and unchallenged. The White Ribbon Campaign exists to change this.
This report analyses Directive 2012/29/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime, and replacing Council Framework Decision 2001/220/JHA, also called the ‘Victims’ Rights Directive’. The analysis has been conducted from a gender perspective [1]. The study is focused on the specificities of...
This document lays out the approach that EIGE proposes to take over the next four years to support the work of the European institutions and Member States in identifying levels of violence against women and in formulating policies to eradicate it. It forms an intrinsic part of EIGE’s forthcoming Mid-Term Work Programme, which is contingent on the approval of the...
This leaflet presents an overview of the study carried out by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) on mapping the administrative data sources on gender-based violence in the EU-28. Administrative data provide detailed information on how justice, police, health and social services respond to incidents of gender-based violence. It reflects what is recorded by an organisation interacting with a...
This report analyses current legal and policy frameworks in the EU Member States, existing approaches to national FGM risk estimations in the EU and their methodological background. It presents quantitative and qualitative data analysis, including that of various focus groups, and carries out a comparative analysis of the selected Member States. The research highlights that strategies preventing female genital mutilation...
This report presents the good practices collected under EIGE's study which aimed to identify and collect existing resources and information on training to prevent domestic violence, on campaigns to raise social and political awareness on domestic violence and on support services for victims of domestic violence. Read more: EIGE's approach to good practices Domestic violence Facts and figures on violence...
Current status and potential for the collection of comparable data The current report provides a comprehensive technical analysis of the current status and potential of the main administrative data sources and the related statistical products. Read more Administrative data sources on gender‑based violence against women in the EU: Report Gender-based violence
The report provides an analysis of methodological options on the cost of gender-based violence and intimate partner violence, by studying different literature and studies, and provides recommendations. It includes a case study on the cost of intimate partner violence against women in the UK during 2012 and provides a calculation of the costs in the EU.
Current status and potential for the collection of comparable data The current report provides a comprehensive overview of the legal and policy framework underpinning administrative data on gender-based violence. The findings of this report show that there is yet to be established a supranational regulation on gender-based violence data collection. The directive establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and...
The online discussion reports published below present the views expressed by participants of several online discussion held in September and October 2013 via our online platform. The reports were prepared in the framework of the ‘Animation online discussions within EuroGender’ EIGE/2012/OPER/23 service contract, delivered by Cultura Lavoro srl in partnership with the European Service Network (ESN). The online discussions covered...
