Austria-EIGE meetings underline importance of comparable data to measure and fight femicides

To fight crimes of femicide – when a woman is killed because of her gender – it is key to identify and count cases accurately.

“In the publications, literature and self-assessment tool all partners of TWOST project may use the words “woman and pronouns she/her” and man “his/him” to describe persons related to the focus groups of the project, whose sex assigned at birth was female or male, whether they identify as female or male, as well as non-binary individuals who identify as both genders or neither gender. By the “sex assigned at birth” we presume the general definition adopted by European Institute of Gender equality as “These sets of biological characteristics are not mutually exclusive, as there are individuals who possess both, but these characteristics tend to differentiate humans as females or males”

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Austria-EIGE meetings underline importance of comparable data to measure and fight femicides

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