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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.

OII Europe highly welcomes the Commission’s proposal, as it addresses the widespread inequity still prevalent in our societies of which gender-based and domestic violence and the specific vulnerability of women and sex and gender minorities are one of the most horrifying aspects.

Intersex persons, i.e., persons born with a variation of sex characteristic, are at high risk of becoming victims of gender-based and domestic violence as well as bias motivated hate speech and hate crime. Intersex persons' personal accounts and an increasing number of research reports on the lived situation of intersex people, show the high degree of discrimination, violence and hate-motivated acts intersex…

Terre des Hommes Netherlands welcomes the initiative to revise EU legislation on victims’ rights to ensure a stronger, more holistic approach to ensure the rights of the victims of crime, including particularly vulnerable child victims.