Hidden in plain sight: improving legal responses for ‘invisible’ victims of femicide

In recent weeks, killings of a woman or girl because of her gender (femicide) in a few EU Member States show the urgency to better respond to this phenomenon.

The European Institute for Gender Equality has published the report Improving legal responses to counter femicide in the European Union: Perspectives from victims and professionals.

The report follows on EIGE’s package to help EU countries gather solid data to classify and measure femicide.

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