New EIGE research on cyber violence against teenage girls exposes a pattern of online harm that policymakers can no longer treat as exceptional. She checks her phone before getting out of bed. Not that she wants to, but she has to know what’s been said about her overnight before facing it at school. New research from EIGE reveals that this...
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.
At a high-level conference under the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the European Union in Nicosia on 18 May 2026, Director Carlien Scheele participates in an opening fireside chat to discuss how to prevent and combat all forms of gender-based online violence against girls. Good morning colleagues, first off, I’d like to thank the Cypriot Presidency for this privileged...
