Acknowledgments

• Author: Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs (European Commission)
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The contrac t for the report wa s held by the Violence and Society Cent re, City, University of London, UK . The team

that researche d and authored the repor t was: Sylvia Walby, Patricia Bell, Janet Bowstead, Ge ne Feder, Abigail Fraser,

Annie Herber t, Stuart Kirby, Sally Mc Manus, Stephen Morris , Sian Oram, Jessica Phoeni x, Merili Pullerits, a nd

Rachel Verrall.

The authors t hank the European Commission , in particular Myria Vassiliadou ; the National Rapporteur s and equiva-

lent mechanisms for providin g information about their respec tive Member States; the EU agencies a nd civil society

organisations for their con tributions.

The study was p repared under Service Contrac t HOME/2018/ISFP/PR /THB/000 0 Lot 2 between City, University of

London and th e European Commission.

Manuscript completed in September 2020

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