The European Parliament’s committees on women’s rights (FEMM) and justice (LIBE) on Wednesday 14 July backed a draft resolution calling for gender-based violence to be added to the EU crime list (see EUROPE B12726A25).
The text, submitted by Malin Björk (The Left, Sweden) and Diana Riba i Giner (Greens/EFA, Spain), argues that this list of crimes to be “combated on a common basis” should be extended to violence against women, girls and LGBTIQ+ people, both offline and online,...