Communiqué: Two-year pledge campaign for undocumented women survivors of violence concludes
International Human Rights Day, December 10, 2018 – Migrant women who face violence and abuse frequently cannot report it, particularly if they are undocumented. The current design of migration laws and policies actually increases women’s risk of violence, since the…
Press Release: Publication of the second intellectual output of the DIS.CO project: Profile of “counsellor at a distance”
Erasmus + project – “DIS.CO – Development of “at a Distance” Counselling Skills for professionals in the field of Counselling Women Victims of Violence or Abuse” (2017-2019) DIS.CO is a two year Erasmus+ project that aims at the development, piloting…
DIS.CO: Profile of Counsellor “at a distance” (IO2) is published!
The second intellectual output of the DIS.CO project (Development of “at a Distance” Counselling Skills for professionals in the field of Counselling Women Victims of Violence of Abuse) has just been published. The profile of counsellor “at a distance” is…
DIS.CO: Needs Assessment (IO1)
The needs assessment (Output 1) consisted of the development of tools to gather relevant information from women with experiences of abuse, professionals as well as relevant literature. The main questions the needs assessment aimed to answer were the following: Are…
WAVE HANDBOOK ON STRENGTH-BASED, NEEDS-LED APPROACH NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD
Strengths and skills of women survivors of violence have not been sufficiently taken into account when creating support services for them. This pioneering handbook, published by WAVE, presents results of a pilot study conducted by members of the WAVE working…
PROGRAMME FOR 20th WAVE CONFERENCE NOW AVAILABLE
The programme for the 20th WAVE Conference, being held in Valletta, Malta from October 22nd to 24th, 2018, has just been released. Download the WAVE conference programme here. Please note that registration is closed and that it is no longer…
New Briefing Paper on the Benefits & Challenges of Implementing the Istanbul Convention
WAVE has published a briefing paper on the benefits and challenges of implementing the Istanbul Convention which covers the efforts of the CSSP platform, as well as CSSP partners individually, in supporting the implementation of the Istanbul Convention at a…
WHOSEFVA Policy Recommendations for Improving Support of Older Women Victims of Abuse (2018)
The amount of older people in society is rapidly increasing, yet services to protect and support older women victims of abuse are weak or non-existent in Europe. Project WHOSEFVA has released a comprehensive report on Policy Recommendations for improving the…
