The
project PROTECT aims at contributing to the prevention and reduction of the
most serious forms of gender-based violence against girls, young women and
their children, such as grievous bodily harm, homicide and attempted
homicide, including so-called honour crimes and killings.

The
beneficiaries of this project are women, young women, and girls, who are at
high risk of severe violations of their fundamental human rights: the right
to life, health and liberty. Research shows that violence can be reduced by
systematically identifying and comprehensively protecting victims at high
risk. Such coordinated interventions are still missing in most EU countries
and regions; therefore the project aims at improving the protection of high
risk victims.

The
project’s target groups are professionals from core agencies responsible for
the protection and support of victims and the prevention of violence,
organisations and institutions working in the area of violence prevention,
policy makers and – last but not least – victims of gender-based violence.

The
project includes several strings of action: research on statistics on homicides/femicides
and attempted homicides/femicides, including so-called killings in the name
of honour, a summary of intimate partner violence and intimate partner
femicide risk assessment studies (literature review), research on standards
of protection and support available to high risk victims, three expert group
meetings, and the PROTECT Online Resource Centre which is launched on the
WAVE website.

Download the Full
Report

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* Italian
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* French
                     
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 According
to the three core activities of the project PROTECT, the report is structured
in 3 main chapters, which can be downloaded separately:

I. Introduction and
Glossary

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II. Research Reports

A. Summary of
intimate partner violence and intimate partner femicide risk assessment
studies

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* Italian
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* Slovak
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* Spanish

B. Mapping of eight
countries concerning the protection and safety of high risk victims of gender
based intimate partner violence, including a description of the functioning
of the MARACs in England and Wales

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* Italian
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* Spanish

Extended Version of Mapping
in English.

C. Availability of
reliable, systematically collected and analysed data on gender-based intimate
partner homicide/femicide in Europe

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* Slovak
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III. Conclusions,
Annexes and Literature

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