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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.

Terre des Hommes Netherlands welcomes the EU initiative to provide uniform standards for preventing gender-based violence, protecting victims and punishing offenders. We take note of the three proposed policy options. We strongly recommend pursuing and strengthening further the third policy option. Please find attached our feedback to the inception impact assessment.

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.

Terre des Hommes Netherlands (TdH NL) strongly welcomes and supports the European Commissions proposal to amend the Directive 2011/36/EU to prevent and combat trafficking in human beings and protect its victims, remodelling it to address new challenges, including its online dimension. Trafficking in human beings and in particular trafficked children, requires an international, multi-layered response.

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.