Working together to combat domestic violence: Cooperation, intervention, research. Findings of the evaluation research assessing intervention projects against domestic violence (WiBIG)…
Building networks among actors, joining forces
Fighting violence against women requires broad social alliances that extend beyond national borders. This is why we advocate the following:
a…
The Beginnings of the Help System
The history of women’s shelters in Germany reaches back to the second half of the 1970s. We asked some of our member associations to tell us about the emergence of…
“Life situations of and pressures on disabled women in Germany”, representative study drafted by the University of Bielefeld on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens,…
Counselling centre for female migrants and their families in Frankfurt/Main, website of FIM e.V.: https://www.fim-frauenrecht.de/en/.
Refugee women and FHK projects on flight and protection…
Displaced Women
Displaced women have fled from their home countries to Germany. Many of them have experienced violence in their home countries or while fleeing. But they experience gender-specific…
Psychosocial counselling for intersex and trans persons and their family members, handbook, pro familia federal association, Frankfurt 2016 (PDF, in German).
Results and recommendations of the…
Action programme ”Security for the elderly“ (SiliA, 2008-2011) by the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.
Violence Against Women in Intimate Relationships. A…
Empirical effect study ─ FrauenbeWegt and FrauenbeDacht, GEBEWO Social Services 2012 (PDF, in German).
Positions and Recommendations for Women with Housing Difficulties and Homeless Women,…
Responding to intimate partner violence and sexual violence against women, WHO clinical and policy guidelines, WHO 2013 (PDF).
World Report on Violence and Health, WHO 2003 (PDF).
Handout:…
