Tag Archives: GenderViolence

#KickingImages – Kunstuni Linz 06-08/05/2015

Kicking Images Conference Visual Politics – Sexualized Violence – Interventions Kunstuniversität Linz 6.-8. May 2015 With the conference Kicking Images and with reference to queer-feminist re-presentation politics, we want to explicitly intervene in the production of future visual notions of … Continue reading

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#Gewalt an Frauen – Über Anerkennung von Erfahrungswissen

„Opfer“ – „Betroffene“ – „Überlebende“: Reflexionen zum Diskurs über Frauen mit Gewalterfahrungen POSTSCRIPT zur AÖF Tagung, 5-6.Juni 2014 Von Birgit Wolf Wie geht es Frauen auf ihrem Weg aus der Gewalt außerhalb der Hilfseinrichtungen und nach erfolgter Trennung? Wie sehen … Continue reading

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#Violence against Women – On the Recognition of Experiential Knowledge

“Victim” – “Survivor”: Reflections on the discourse about women experiencing of violence (GERMAN VERSION ) POSTSCRIPT to the AOEF Meeting, 5-6.June 2014 By Birgit Wolf How are women on their way out of violence outside the support services and after … Continue reading

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#WAVE: The Istanbul Convention commits to specialist victim support

The area of specialist victim support for women survivors of violence and their children is expected to experience improvement, if CoE member states commit themselves to effectively implement the Istanbul Convention – the CoE Convention on preventing and combating violence … Continue reading

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#EndVAW: Istanbul Convention into force

The Istanbul Convention entered into force on 1 August 2014. This is an important milestone in the history of the Women’s Movement and much remains to be done to improve the situation of women survivors of violence and their children. … Continue reading

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21.-23.4. European Conference on Gender and Violence 2014

  The European Network on Gender and Violence (ENGV) supports networking among scholars and professionals whose work concerns violence, gender, prevention and related issues. It is international, multi-disciplinary, and collaboratively-minded. The network’s conferences aim to facilitate interdisciplinary discussions of the … Continue reading

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FRA survey on gender-based violence in all EU Member States

The new report by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) presents results from the world’s biggest-ever survey on violence against women, revealing the extent of abuse suffered by women at home, work, in public and online. As well … Continue reading

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EU Survey on gender-based violence will be presented in March 2014

The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) will present the results of its survey on gender-based violence in March 2014.  The results are based on an EU-wide survey conducted by FRA from 2011—2012.  The survey data on violence against … Continue reading

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Non-formal curriculum to prevent violence against women and girls

As gender and anti-violence researcher working in the field of education, I am thinking about recognition of non-formal education in violence prevention since quite a couple of time. On the occasion of the International Day of the Girl Child, UN Women … Continue reading

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UN Women calls for urgent and effective action against femicide | UN Women

“We call on States to accelerate action and swiftly implement the agreements reached on ending all forms of violence against women and girls and on femicide in particular. We owe it to the tens of thousands of women killed every … Continue reading

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