To fight violence, including gender-based violence and violence against children by:
- Preventing and combating at all levels all forms of gender-based violence against women and girls in all their diversity and domestic violence, including by promoting the standards laid down in the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence;
- Preventing and combating all forms of violence against children, young people and other groups at risk, such as LGBTQI persons and persons with disabilities;
- Supporting and protecting all direct and indirect victims of the forms of violence referred to in points (1) and (2), such as the victims of domestic violence perpetrated within the family or within intimate relationships, including children orphaned as a result of domestic crimes, and supporting and ensuring the same level of protection throughout the Union for victims of gender-based violence.
Policy initiatives supported:
- EU Gender Equality Strategy
- EU strategy on the rights of the child,
- EU Strategy on victims’ rights,
- The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention) to which the EU has acceded as of 1 October 2023,
- Proposal for a Directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence,
- Victim’s Rights Directive,
- Upcoming Recommendation on harmful practices (planned for the first half of 2024),
- Upcoming Recommendation on integrated child protection systems in the EU (planned for the first half of 2024)
- LGBTIQ Strategy,
- EU Anti-racism action plan 2020-2025,
- EU Roma Strategic Framework for Equality,
- Participation and Inclusion (2020-2030).