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WAVE took part in the call for Action Grants by the DAPHNE program and was granted the financial means to conduct “PROTECT - Good Practice in Preventing Serious Violence, Attempted Homicides, Including Crimes in the Name of honour, and in Protecting High Risk Victims of Gender Based Violence" in 2010. READ MORE>>
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The Committees task is to prepare a legally binding instrument to prevent and combat domestic violence including specific forms of violence against women, to protect and support the victims of such violence and to prosecute the perpetrators. The newly constituted Ad Hoc Committee on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence of the Council of Europe launched its website and gathered for the first time in spring 2009. READ MORE>>
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In 2008-09 three European partner organiza- tions Oxfam GB (UK), Lamoro (Italy) and WAVE (Austria) will together carry out a PROGRESS project funded by the European comission. READ MORE>>
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GNWS is the first ever network of international women’s shelters, and was founded by 23 persons, its main purpose being to unite the women’s shelters movement globally to end violence against women and their children. READ MORE>>
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WAVE welcomes the initiative launched by the Spanish EU Presidency for a Europe-wide system of restraint orders and for EU legislation offering protection to women victims of gender-based violence across national borders. READ MORE>>
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From September 24th to 26th, the SILENT WITNESSES CAMPAIGN was hosted by the WAVE conference 2009 in Vienna, Austria.
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WAVE sends out monthly newsletters to inform it's network and supporters of ongoing news related to shelter work and feminist poli- tics. The office also publishes the magazine Fempower.
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