{"id":469,"date":"2021-02-08T19:12:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T17:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eof.cut.ac.cy\/?p=469"},"modified":"2021-02-10T08:25:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T06:25:54","slug":"daily-news-08-02-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eof.cut.ac.cy\/?p=469","title":{"rendered":"Consultation- Combating gender-based violence- protecting victims and punish offenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/law\/better-regulation\/have-your-say\/initiatives\/12682-Preventing-and-combatting-gender-based-violence\/public-consultation\">https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/law\/better-regulation\/have-your-say\/initiatives\/12682-Preventing-and-combatting-gender-based-violence\/public-consultation<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_xmsonormal\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">Equality: Commission opens public consultation on tackling violence against women and domestic violence<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_xmsonormal\"><span lang=\"EN-IE\">Today, the European Commission is launching a public consultation on best ways to tackle gender-based and domestic violence. The views gathered in the consultation will feed into a legislative initiative, announced in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/IP_20_358\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">Gender Equality Strategy<\/a>, and expected at the end of this year. President Ursula\u00a0<b>von der Leyen<\/b>\u00a0has placed fight against gender-based violence among her key\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/sites\/info\/files\/political-guidelines-next-commission_en_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">political priorities<\/a>\u00a0and reiterated her commitment to the legislative initiative in her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/sites\/info\/files\/state_of_the_union_2020_letter_of_intent_en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">letter of intent accompanying the 2020 State of the Union Address<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Violence against women and girls is one of the most persistent forms of gender-based discrimination and a human rights violation in Europe.<\/span><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\">In the EU, 33% of women were subject to physical and\/or sexual violence.<b>\u00a0<\/b>Domestic violence \u2013 against women and other victims such as children, men and the elderly \u2013 has increased due to lockdown measures during the COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-IE\">The public consultation will gather views from a wide range of stakeholders \u2013 such as members of the general public, academics, representatives of businesses and employees, NGOs, media organisations and public authorities. Those interested in participating in the public consultation can fill out a questionnaire, which is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/law\/better-regulation\/have-your-say\/initiatives\/12682-Preventing-and-combatting-gender-based-violence\/public-consultation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">available here<\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">. More information can be found online about the Commission\u2019s work on\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/policies\/justice-and-fundamental-rights\/gender-equality\/gender-based-violence\/ending-gender-based-violence_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">ending gender-based violence.<\/span><\/a><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/law\/better-regulation\/have-your-say\/initiatives\/12682-Preventing-and-combatting-gender-based-violence\/public-consultation Equality: Commission opens public consultation on tackling violence against women and domestic violence Today, the European Commission is launching &hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eof.cut.ac.cy\/?p=469\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eof.cut.ac.cy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eof.cut.ac.cy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eof.cut.ac.cy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eof.cut.ac.cy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eof.cut.ac.cy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/eof.cut.ac.cy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"http:\/\/eof.cut.ac.cy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eof.cut.ac.cy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eof.cut.ac.cy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eof.cut.ac.cy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}