Female genital mutilation includes all procedures that intentionally alter or cause injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. It is carried out for cultural, religious and sometimes social reasons, but has no health benefits and can have serious immediate and long-term effects on health and wellbeing. What is being done to put a stop to this practice?

Zero tolerance for female genital mutilation

EP Plenary session - Identifying gender-based violence as a new area of crime listed in Article 83(1) TFEU

Plenary session Week 37 2017 in Strasbourg - EU accession to the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence

Democracy Support and Election Coordination Group conference ' Electing Peace - What in Preventing Election Violence ? '

Eva-Britt SVENSSON, Jose MENDES BOTA, Rashida MANJOO

Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality. Tackling gender-based violence

urgences pédiatriques Hospital St Pierre

Pediadric hospital, emergency service, child, children, emergency room

International day for the Elimination of violence against women

Dockworkers demonstration near the EP in Strasbourg.

This infoclip shows posed scenes of violence against women and domestic violence. Violence against women and girls is a widespread and devastating human rights violation that takes place across the globe. In the EU, one third of women have experienced physical and/or sexual violence since the age of 15 and about 50 women lose their lives to domestic violence every week. The number of cases of domestic violence rised very rapidly because of the restrictive measures taken to combat COVID-19.

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