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Child Sexual Abuse/Exploitation Children Europe Sexual Harassment Violence Against Women Young People
Developing bystander responses to sexual harassment among young people
In this project, undertaken in Portugal (FPCEUP / UMAR), Slovenia (Peace Institute), United Kingdom (CWASU, London Met), Malta (University of Malta - MT) the researchers developed, piloted, implemented, and evaluated a programme for bystanders to prevent sexual harassment in secondary schools.
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Europe Policy Research Violence Against Women
Co-ordination Action on Human Rights Violations (CAHRV) Review
CAHRV is a three-year project conducted through a collaborative effort of research institutions, policy networks, and individual researchers, including CWASU. The project addresses human rights violations in the context of inter-personal relationships. CAHRV aims to review and integrate research that addresses the linkages between violence and violent masculinity, on the
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Europe Trafficking Training
Developing Minimum Standards for Professionals in the Balkans Responding to the Trafficking of Women and Girls for the Purposes of Sexual Exploitation
The objective of this capacity-building project was to contribute to international efforts to combat trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation within and from the Balkans, through the expansion, and awareness, of good practice in governmental, non-governmental and voluntary local agencies. The mechanism was to pilot training for trainers
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Europe Legislation Policy Prostitution Research Review Violence Against Women
Critical Examination of Responses to Prostitution in Four Countries
This review was commissioned by the Routes Out Social Inclusion Partnership in order to identify the most effective strategies that have worked elsewhere and use them to inform the work of the Partnership in Scotland. Aims of the review were to address: The current approach to prostitution; The previous approach
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Europe Rape Support Projects
Rape: Strengthening the Linkages – Consolidating the European Network Project
This project is a result of recommendations made and first steps taken from a previous Daphne-funded Project (Rape the Forgotten Issue). The role of CWASU in this multi-stranded project was to update our earlier research on attrition rates across Europe. This project resulted in the publication of a briefing document
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Europe Research Review Trafficking
Review of Research on Trafficking in Women and Children in Europe
The aims of this review are not merely to summarise what we know today about the trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation, but also to organise the material into key themes; critically assess the knowledge base and identify gaps and future challenges. Focusing on trafficking from, into and
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Criminal Justice System Europe Rape Support Projects
Rape: The Forgotten Issue? A European Research and Networking Project
The original idea for this project emerged from an international workshop on rape and was developed by three UK groups (CWASU, South Essex Rape and Incest Crisis Centre and Campaign to End Rape), supported by partners from Ireland (The Network of Rape Crisis Centres, Ireland) and Finland (Rape Crisis Centre,
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Domestic Violence Europe Perpetrators Support Projects Training
Best practice Training and Materials for Working with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence and Their (ex) Partners
Domestic Violence Intervention Project (DVIP) In January 2000 DVIP and its European partners received Daphne funding for a project which aims to promote best practice with regard to domestic violence intervention both within the UK and across other European countries. The first stage of the project involved DVIP producing a
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Domestic Violence Europe Support Projects
Project Documentation 1998-1999 (Transnational Network of Experts from NGO Women Projects in Great Britain and Germany for Optimising the Action Against Domestic Violence)
The aim of this transnational project is to promote an exchange of preventative work and training concepts in responding to domestic violence by establishing a bi-national network of workers in Britain and Germany. The project promotes quality assurance in NGO women’s projects in the areas of service provision, preventative work
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Child Sexual Abuse/Exploitation Europe Legislation Policy Research
Sexual exploitation of children in the context of children’s rights and child protection – A European perspective
This report is based on a research proposal developed in partnership by CWASU (lead partner), Dublin Women’s Aid, Ireland and ROKS, Sweden. The trans-European Project collected detailed data from justice departments, state agencies and NGOs concerning a broad range of issues related to the sexual exploitation of children, including: the
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Europe Violence Against Women
Council of Europe Plan of Action for the group of specialists (EG-S-VL) on violence against women
This Group of Specialists for combating violence against women was established to develop this Plan of Action under the auspices of the Council of Europe’s Steering Committee for Equality between Women and Men. The nine members of this group constituted a geographically balanced representation of the member States of the
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Child Sexual Abuse/Exploitation Children Europe Legislation Policy
What is known about child sexual exploitation in the UK
This document arose out of the work of the European Forum for Child Welfare, drawing on papers and discussions from two European conferences on Child Pornography and Sexual Exploitation held in London and Brussels in 1995. The report: summarises what is currently known about the sexual exploitation of children; documents