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Prof. Dr. Janina Isabel Steinert gives Keynote at the Hertie School Forum

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a widespread issue with serious and far-reaching consequences for individuals and societies. Beyond physical violence, IPV involves patterns of psychological violence and coercive control that obstruct victims’ wellbeing, safety, and autonomy. Yet, much of this violence remains hidden and insufficiently understood, since we lack reliable data that sheds light on the scope of IPV as well as its drivers and effects.
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This joint event of the Hertie School, the German Youth Institute, and the Einstein Center for Population Diversity brought together experts from academia, government, and public institutions to explore how IPV can be measured and how data gaps can be addressed across different contexts, aiming to identify pathways toward more robust prevention, protection, and support strategies that reflect the full spectrum of IPV.

Prof. Janina Steinert delivered a keynote speech on "Intimate Partner Violence against Women in India: Data Gaps and Policy Responses" and participated as one of the panelists in the subsequent podium discussion. In her keynote, she emphasised that economic abuse remains a neglected dimension in global measues and policy efforts on intimate partner violence and presented first quantitative insights on the prevalence of economic violence against women in India from her ERC-funded research project, ECOVI.

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