In addition to these data provided by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, the UN estimates that 70% of domestic violence fatalities are women. In 2016, the number of women victims of homicide perpetrated by intimate partners or family members and relatives according to Eurostat was 238 in Germany, 146 in France, 67 in Spain, 45 in Hungary, 18 in Croatia, 16 in Finland, and 11 in Albania, for example. More...

The Council of Europe welcomes the decision of the German Catholic Bishops’ Conference (DBK) to introduce a commemoration day dedicated to the victims of sexual abuse. The Bishops’ Conference announced the annual commemoration should take place on or around the 18th November, which coincides with the “European Day on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse”. More...