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Equality Now welcomes the EU initiative to provide uniform standards for preventing gender-based violence, protecting victims and punishing offenders Equality Now is an international feminist and human rights organisation working to end violence and discrimination against women and girls across the world.

Gender-based and domestic violence are serious crimes that can cause long term physical, psychological and social harm to the victim. Lumos therefore welcomes the European Commission’s initiative to address the issue of gender-based and domestic violence and to protect victims and punish offenders.

Lumos is an international children’s charity fighting for every child’s right to a family by transforming care systems around the world. An estimated 5.4 million children are trapped in institutions globally including so called orphanages. Research has shown that these institutions can harm a child’s growth and development.

Human trafficking is a highly gendered crime - the majority of victims are subjected to trafficking for sexual exploitation (79%), and that the vast majority of those victims are women and girls (according to UN 71% of victims are women). Equality Now acknowledges that the Anti-Trafficking Directive is a core instrument in the EU’s fight against all forms of violence against women and girls.

Equality Now welcomes the provisions aiming at improving the identification of victims of trafficking, the liability of legal persons, the data collection and the mandatory criminalisation of the knowing use of an act provided by a victim of trafficking since very few member states have implemented this criminalisation so far.