ABSTRACT
As part of the EU-funded project ‘FEM-UNITED – United to prevent IPV/DV Femicide in Europe’, the Department of Gender & Sexualities within the Faculty for Social Wellbeing at the University of Malta, together with the Women’s Rights Foundation (WRF) organised three online meetings with stakeholders held on the 21st June 2021, 12th October 2021 and 28th April 2022 respectively. The stakeholders who attended all three meetings were from various State Institutions who cover various aspects of violence against women in Malta. These included the Police and the Courts, Social Services and Legal, Primary Healthcare and the Commission of Gender Based Violence & Domestic Violence, the National Statistics Office and the Human Rights Directorate. The individuals who attended were from 15 institutions. During the discussions of the first meeting, the stakeholders put forward gaps and challenges which are hindering proper prevention and intervention in the area of violence against women, particularly intimate partner violence, domestic violence and femicide. During the second meeting, recommendations were compiled to tackle and improve system-wide responses and during the third and final meeting, guidelines for professionals were extracted from the recommendations.
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