The Irish Observatory on Violence Against Women: Second national report

Published: Saturday, September 30, 2006

In 1997 The European Women's Lobby (EWL) set up an Observatory on Violence against Women drawing together experts from the then fifteen Member States, now expanded to twenty five, to share experience, gather data and examine progress across the European Union. The EWL Observatory is co-ordinated by and feeds into the work of the EWL Policy ActionCentre on Violence against Women in monitoring and highlighting the issue of gender based violence with the European institutions, including the European Commission and the European
Parliament. National non-governmental Observatories have been initiated as a mechanism to collate accurate, independent data and create common frameworks and indicators to monitor progress in combating violence against women within the Member States. The Irish Observatory on Violence against Women was the first such body to be set up in 2002.

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