Agency of Migrant Women against Gender Violence. Final Comparative Report of the Project SPEAK OUT!Empowering Migrant, Refugee and Ethinic Minority Women against Gender Violence in Europe.

The project SPEAK OUT! Empowering Migrant, Refugee and Ethnic Minority Women against Gender Violence in Europe, financially supported by the Daphne Programme of the European Union aims to give voice to migrant, refugee and (ethnic) minority (MREM) women in Europe to prevent and stop gender violence. The project worked with different groups of MREM women in five different areas – Padua (Italy), Madrid (Spain), Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain), Helsinki (Finland) and the Netherlands – using self-empowerment methods and implementing resources for gender agency in the local contexts. The Project develops the possibility to give birth of intermediate bodies having the capability of opening and maintaining the transcultural debate on VAW (the international acronym for violence against women) and the ability of exercising social pressure to find the most suitable VAW politics from the grassroots of the European civil society.