About the Project

The research team will evaluate the process of changes in legislation considering violence against women, children and youth in new member states in the period from 1991 to 2006. Partner organizations from the following states will cooperate within the project: Slovenia, Slovakia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, E

stonia, Malta, Hungary and Cyprus; Czech Republic will also be taken into account. The goal of the research is to prepare recommendations for the improvement of the implementation of the EU policy against violence in the future EU enlargement processes. This will be done by use of (quantitative and qualitative) analysis, along with evaluating the process of changes in legislation in each of new member states and identification of key differences in these processes of changes and possible reasons for them.

Results of the project could be used as starting point for more successful implementation of the policy against violence towards women, children and youth in candidate and acceding states and for running the new neighborhood policy. The innovativeness of the project lies in combining various areas of research and different methodological approaches. The research will focus on the identification of the key factors that influenced the process of developing successful legislation framework on violence on the national level and present good practices and recommendations.