WAVE Statement on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 2022
Statement on Femicide How European governments sustain a culture of GBV On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the Women Against Violence Europe (WAVE) Network is taking a stance to remind the states’ responsibility to tackle…
Advocacy Update: Proposal for EU Directive combating violence against women and domestic violence
On 8 March 2022, the European Commission published a proposal for an EU Directive on combating violence against women (VAW) and domestic violence (DV), aiming to support and protect victims/survivors, guarantee their access to justice, and hold offenders to account. The proposal seeks to create a dedicated EU legal…
TAVAM – Together Against Violence in Austria and Moldova
WAVE is launching a new project in cooperation with the Moldovan umbrella organisation for violence protection “National Coalition Life Without Violence” titled TAVAM (Together Against Violence in Austria and Moldova). This project aims to strengthen the capacity of Moldovan women’s…
New toolkit launched on prevention and response to gender-based violence in conflict and post-conflict settings
On 8 November 2022, the WAVE Network in partnership with the OSCE Gender Issues Programme/WIN Project organised the conference on preventing and responding to gender-based violence (GBV) during the war and in post-war settings in Tbilisi, Georgia, to explore the…
Support Women’s Human Rights Defenders in Ukraine & neighbouring countries
Help us support women and women’s human rights defenders in the Ukraine and in neighbouring countries to survive the war during the harsh winter! Since the start of the Russian military invasion of the Ukrainian territory, our member organisations have…
TOOLKIT: Preventing and responding to GBV during the war and in post-war settings
In 2022, WAVE launched a new project in collaboration with OSCE to fill the gap on how to meaningfully support survivors of violence and civil society organizations (CSOs) in conflict and post-conflict areas. Based on the expertise of women’s organizations,…
WAVE Newsletter September-October 2022
The WAVE Newsletter September-October 2022 is out now! We are happy to share with you that our newest WAVE Newsletter has just been published. Let’s find out what happened in autumn! 🍁 This newsletter covers updates from the WAVE network and our…
WAVE Statement: International Safe Abortion Day
On the International Safe Abortion Day, the Women Against Violence Europe (WAVE) Network is taking a stance to reiterate the importance of tackling the increasing global pushback against women’s human rights, bodily autonomy, and reproductive choice disproportionally affecting women from…
