Gender-based violence against women with disabilities
Women with disabilities face a higher risk of experiencing gender-based violence, which also has ableist implications.
What did the Greek #metoo teach us?
The dominant discourse could no longer present the perpetrators as “monsters”, and speak of “isolated incidents”.
What happens after filing a complaint?
Maria Apostolaki, the coordinator of legal services at the Diotima Center, presents the main institutional obstacles to the protection of surviving women.
Relationality and gender-based violence (Part B)
The rule of love has been harsh and oppressive and has promoted patriarchal values albeit with spatial and temporal variations.
Everything we don’t know/recognise (Part A’)
The 1st part of Maria Liapi’s presentation on domestic violence on the occasion of her participation in the 8th Psychopharmacology Conference.
Recognise the signs of violence in a relationship
Any survivor can escape from an abusive relationship. She is not alone in this journey. She can turn to the appropriate agencies.
5 questions and answers on gender-based violence
Gender-based violence is an everyday, global phenomenon. It includes any harmful acts and threats of such acts.
Learn your legal rights
No one has the right to be abusive, aggressive, or violent toward you. Domestic violence is prosecuted by law 3500/2006.
Survivor support services
Every survivor can escape abuse. Contact the appropriate agencies for specialized support.
Μake an escape plan
It is important to plan your escape from an abusive relationship. See some indicative steps below and make an escape plan.
The cycle of violence
Abused women often report feeling trapped in a tightrope from which they cannot escape.
Forms of domestic violence
Domestic violence is the most prevalent form of gender-based violence worldwide. 1 in 4 European women experiences or will experience it at some point in her life.
Domestic violence and COVID-19
No pandemic is invincible. Every woman can escape from abuse if she “unlocks” the power hidden within her.
The voices that want to silence the Greek metoo
Metoo is about gender-based violence, the violation of fundamental human rights, an offense prosecuted by law.
Guide to escaping an abusive relationship
An escape guide and a step-by-step guide for women who want to escape from an abusive relationship. Plus the legal actions victims can take.
Femicide in public discourse and the public sphere
How violence against women, as well as femicide, appears in public discourse and in particular in the media (digital and traditional)?
Because we (should) be feminists: Reflections on 8 March
We often hear that feminism today is largely outdated. The equality of the sexes is supposedly a conquered cause that occupied the previous generations.
Femicide: The most extreme form of gender-based and sexist violence
Of the 87,000 murders of women worldwide in 2017, 58% were committed by (former or current) husbands or partners or a family member.
Five key steps for the woman who has suffered violence
Immediately move out of the reach of the perpetrator, taking her children and documents with her, and call 100.