The Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies [MIGS] is one of the partner organisations in action to tackle violence against older women in the EU.
According to the Institute, a new project establishes a large-scale transnational action to tackle gender-based violence against older women through collaboration of different agencies.
Entitled 'MARVOW 2.0: Coordinated Multi-agency Response to Violence against Older Women', it builds on the earlier MARVOW project implemented between 2019 and 2022 and will expand a multi-agency collaboration model to protect older women affected by violence in the European Union.
It stresses that violence against older women is an increasingly relevant concern as in the European Union 5% of women over 50 reported physical and/or sexual violence in the last year, 3% from a partner.
The same study suggests that although 19% of women over 60 experienced abuse from a partner during their lifetime, only 14% of women who experienced violence reported their most serious incident of IPV to the police.
Therefore, it adds, it is widely believed that the number of unreported cases of violence against older women is very high.
"As Europe's population ages, the issues surrounding violence against older women are likely to intensify. This is why MARVOW 2.0 will take action to tackle GBV against older women through multi-agency teamwork" it says.
Partner organisations in Europe are the Association of Austrian Autonomous Women's Shelters, Austria, the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies, Cyprus, the Union of Women Associations of Heraklion, Greece, the Conexus, Spain, the Association Naia, Bulgaria, the Anci Associazione Regionale Comuni Italiani Lazio, Italy, the SC Psytel, France, the AGE Platform Europe, the European Network for the Work with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence (WWP EN) and the Women Against Violence Europe (WAVE).
Source: Cyprus News Agency
