NKVTS project on sexual and gender-based violence against women migrants and refugees: analysing causes and effective policy response

NKVTS and six international partners in Europe, the Middle East and Canada have received a grant for a three-year study on “Violence against women migrants and refugees: analysing causes and effective policy response.” Research Professor Margunn Bjørnholt from NKVTS is principal investigator for the Norwegian part of the project. The project is funded by the Joint Call on Gender and UN Sustainable Development Goals under Horizon 2020. The consortium is coordinated by Professor Jane Freedman at the Centre de recherches sociologiques et politiques de Paris. The research group includes political scientists, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists and legal scholars.