EU rights and equality agency heads: Let’s step up our efforts to end domestic violence | European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights

EU rights and equality agency heads: Let’s step up our efforts to end domestic violence | European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights

Since the beginning of Coronavirus lockdowns, police, women shelters and NGOs have reported a surge in domestic violence, especially violence targeting women. The pandemic exposed how common this serious human rights abuse is and how insufficient the measures to fight it still are. The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) and the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) call on the EU and the Member States to use the coronavirus pandemic as an opportunity to step up their efforts to effectively protect women's rights.(...)