Operations
Global - femicide

2016 original call for national Femicide Watches | UN SRVAW

23/09/2019 — Policies, Guidelines, Jurisprudence
In her September 2016 report to the UNGA, the UN Special Rapporteur on VAW addresses the topic of femicide, or the gender-related killing of women, and proposes the establishment at the global, national and regional levels of a “femicide watch” and observatories on violence against...
  • femicide
  • UNSRVAW
  • Report
  • UNGA
  • VAW
  • observatories...
Global - online violence

Femicide Volume 11: Cyber Crimes against Women and Girls

20/05/2019 — Studies, Analyses, Reports
This volume  again compiles strategies, best practices and innovative approaches, serves as a platform for, and provides practical support to anybody who wishes to prevent, investigate, prosecute, and punish VAW and gender-related killings of women and girls, i.e. femicide. The second section...
  • femicide
  • femicide volume
  • online violence
  • cyber crime
  • VAW...
Global - VAW

Major campaigns against VAW and femicide | Vienna Femicide Team

01/09/2018 — Grassroots, Advocacy, Campaigns
Helena Gabriel, member of the Vienna Femicide Team, provides a list of the most inspirational and effective campaigns against femicide, their purposes, outcomes and strategies.
  • campaigns
  • EU
  • femicide
  • VAW
  • Ni Una Menos
  • Argentine...
Global - online violence

2018 Symposium on online and ICT-faciliated VAW | Vienna Femicide Team

01/09/2018 — Studies, Analyses, Reports
On the 2018 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (25th of November), the Femicide Team of the ACUNS Vienna Liaison Office organized a symposium on cybercrimes commited against women: "Gender Inequality in the Digital Era: Addressing Online and ICT-Facilitated...
  • online violence
  • ICT
  • symposium
  • ICT-facilitated violence
  • VAW...
Germany - intimate-partner violence

Official 2017 statistics on intimate partner violence in Germany | BKA

20/11/2018 — Studies, Analyses, Reports
This BKA report (in German) provides recent statistics on all forms of intimate-partner violence in Germany. In 2017, 138.893 people suffered from violence by their intimate partner, and 147 women died from it.
  • intimate-partner violence
  • Germany
  • statistics
  • BKA
  • femicide...
Austria - online violence

Panel discussion on cyber crime against women and girls on November 26, 2018 | ACUNS Vienna

26/11/2018 — News
The purpose of this event is to expose the social and psychological damage and long-term effects that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) facilitated violence against women inflict upon its victims, including online harassment by strangers and ex-boyfriends, cyber-bullying, revenge-...
  • online violence
  • ICT-facilitated violence
  • cyber crime
  • ACUNS Vienna...