Across the EU, women continue to experience sexual violence that is invisible in law. Many perpetrators evade justice because, in several Member States rape is still defined through a narrow lens of force, injury or physical resistance. There, women who have been coerced into sex, manipulated, too frightened to resist, or been so shocked that they didn’t physically fight, have...
All women and girls deserve to feel safe at home, at school, at work and in public. Yet digital tools are increasingly used to stalk, harass and silence them.
And it threatens our health, wealth and well-being. Imagine starting your career full of promise, only to be silenced, sidelined, or made ill by unwanted sexual behaviour. This is the reality for millions of women across Europe. The biggest EU-wide survey on violence against women, from Eurostat, FRA and EIGE, capturing the lived experiences of almost 115,000 women, shows that...
As EU Member States put the Directive on Violence Against Women into practice, they are asked to do something many have never done before: build coordinated, multi-layered prevention strategies that tackle violence before it reaches the criminal justice system.
