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EMPOW-AIR - Empowering Women
Against Intimate partnership violence in Roma
communities (April
2011 - march 2013), Daphne III Programme |
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EMPOW-AIR is a project aiming at doing research on male
violence against women in intimate parterships within
ethnic minority communities in order to create tools to
help professionals in dealing with gender violence
detection and prevention. Additionally, EMPOW-AIR
intends to promote empowerment of women from ethnic
minorities to tackle gender violence situations and
raise awareness amon professionals, ethnic minority
communities and decision-makers.
EMPOW-AIR is a Daphne project coordinated by SURT
and developed with the collaboration of various partner
organizations: Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini (Italy),
International Centre for Minority Studies and
Intercultural Relations, IMIR (Bulgaria), Asociatia
Femeilor Tiganci “Pentru Copiii Nostri” (Romania) and
Fundación Secretariado Gitano (Spain).
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Daphne project – ‘Speak Out! Empowering Migrant,
Refugee and Ethnic Minority Women against Gender
Violence in Europe’ coordinated by the Sociology
Department of the University of Padova, Italy (January
2011 – December 2012).
Speak Out! is a project that aims at contributing to the
prevention and combat of violence against migrant,
refugee and ethnic minority women, from a gender and an
intercultural perspective, both among the host society
and the migrant communities themselves. Additionally,
the project aims to empower migrant, refugee and ethnic
minority women to protect themselves against violence,
by developing both individual and collective strategies.
The participating countries are Italy, Spain, Finland
and the Netherlands.
SURT is one of the partner organisations of the
project, together with: Fondazione Basaglia (Italy),
Municipality of Padova (Italy), Fundación CEPAIM (Spain),
The Aleksanteri Institute-University of Helsinky (Finland),
MONIKA Multicultural Women’s Association (Finland), Tiye
International (Neteherlands) and CIRSPG of Padova (Italy).
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