The aim of the Rape Crisis Network Europe is to support members and survivors through:
  • Counselling, legal and support services in over 30 countries

  • Europe-wide data collection and research

  • Providing training for volunteers, workers and professionals

  • Influencing curriculum development through educators and policymakers

  • Lobbying for change in legal provisions, service standards, funding and resources

  • International linking for action through support and pressure
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The aim of the Rape Crisis Network Europe is to support members and survivors through campaigning, education and research and development work to eliminate sexual violence against women.

This will be achieved through the sharing of information, experiences and good practice and by conducting research, developing policies, education strategies and delivering training in order to ensure that women who are sexually assaulted get an immediate and supportive response wherever they live in Europe.

The RCNE will work to ensure that rape is named, behaviours are changed and local and international responses are effective from the survivors' perspective.

The objectives of RCNE are to:

  1. Provide information through recording facts, exchanging experiences, disseminating results, awareness raising, educating, informing the development of support service and acting as a point of contact for survivors/victims and organisations;

  2. Conduct research on EU wide activities, on women's experiences, making international comparisons and exposing deficiencies and injustices;

  3. Influencing education services through educators, policy makers and improving the curriculum;

  4. Providing training for volunteers, workers and professionals and improve delivery through networking to establish models of delivery, exchanging practices and materials, mentoring and developing guidelines;

  5. International linking for action through support and pressure, strategies to include all women, developing international best practice and informing and making an impact on EU policy;
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  6. Lobbying for change in legal provisions, service coverage and standards, funding and resources for groups and organisations that work with victims/survivors and organising campaigns as necessary.


The following approaches are used in the work of the RCNE:
  • Include all women, i.e. we will ensure that practice is developed to include black women, disabled women, lesbian women, ethnic women, etc;

  • Twinning, i.e. members will match up to assist each other with specific projects, tasks etc;

  • Working groups will be formed to progress specific areas of work;

  • Mentoring will be organised to ensure that where specific expertise is gained it is shared among the members;

  • Survivor/victim informed, i.e. members will work to keep that the focus of all of their work;

  • Review, monitor and evaluating tools will be utilised throughout;
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  • Sustainability will be sought through securing resources for the work, including the possibility of acquiring an office and staff.

In so doing, the RCNE will work to influence European policy-making and seek to generate standards of service delivery, policy implementation and legislation through national member state governments, NGO's and the Human Rights agenda.

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We gratefully acknowledge
the support of the
European Commission
Daphne Programme