Intersectionality and the inclusive approach to dealing with gender-based violence
WAVE composed a position paper on its stance on intersectionality and the importance to integrate an inclusive approach to dealing with gender-based violence. The paper is structured into two sections, and gives both theoretical and practical reasoning on WAVE’s implementation…
WAVE Statistics 2017
The 2017 WAVE country report gives an overview of the situation of women’s specialist support services in Europe and provides statistics on women’s shelters, centres and national women’s helplines from a total of 46 European countries. For further details regarding…
Improving Access to Services for Women with Disabilities (2017)
The 2017 ‘Thematic Paper on Improving Access to Services for Women with Disabilities’ looks at which challenges women with disabilities face when trying to seek help from gender-based violence. The protection of women with disability from gender-based violence has been…
Preventing and Eradicating Femicide (2017)
The WAVE thematic paper on preventing and eradicating femicide is meant to provide policy-makers and practitioners with a comprehensive yet concise overview on the topic of femicide. The paper includes a detailed definition of the phenomenon, including a wide range…
WAVE Statistics 2016
The WAVE Fact sheet & Statistics 2016 gathers key information from the WAVE Report 2015, when it comes to women’s shelters, national women’s helplines and women’s centres. Furthermore, the document also presents important facts and figures when it comes to…
Specialist Services Data Mapping 2016
The 2016 report titled ‘WAVE Mapping – Administrative Data Collection by Women’s Support Services in Europe: National Women’s Helplines, Women’s Shelters, and Women’s Centers’ explores the situation of data collection in specialist women’s support services in Europe with the aim…
The right of children to live a life free from violence (2015)
The 2015 ‘Thematic Paper on the Right of the Child to Live a Life Free from Violence’ looks at how domestic violence affects children: from direct physical assault to witnessing how their mothers cope with violence. In addition, the paper…
Access to justice for women victims of violence: Analysis and key tenets of international law and practice in the field (2015)
The 2016 thematic paper ‘Access to Justice for Women Victims of Violence: Analysis and Key Tenets of International Law and Practice in the Field’ was developed by lawyer Genoveva Tisheva, also working at the WAVE Member organisation in Bulgaria, the…
