ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the EU-wide survey on violence against women published by FRA in March 2014. The authors aim at providing an answer to the question of how the survey is being used by other international mechanisms and institutions, and how it can contribute to effectively combating violence against women, both at the international and the national levels. Since the chapter is written from the perspective of human rights lawyers, and not that of sociologists or statisticians, it focusses on the study’s relevance for the international human rights law implementation machinery, rather than on its research methodology. At the same time, we point to the groundbreaking nature of the survey, since for the first time the extent, nature and consequences of violence against women across the EU have been documented. Our analysis also addresses the future. We attempt to answer the question of what FRA’s future contribution could be to successfully combating violence against women.
