Factsheet: Gender-based violence against women – an EU-wide survey

October
2011
This factsheet provides valuable background information concerning the FRA survey on violence against women.
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Violence against women continues to be a pressing problem across EU Member States, undermining women's core fundamental rights, such as dignity, access to justice and gender equality. The impact of violence against women reaches far beyond the individuals immediately involved - victim(s) and perpetrator(s) - to affect families, communities and society at large.

In 2011-2012, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) will conduct an EU-wide survey on violence against women. This is the first survey of its kind to randomly sample and interview 40,000 women across the 27 EU Member States and Croatia. It will therefore furnish the robust, comparable data that policy makers need to shape informed, targeted policies to combat such violence.

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