Hand Book on Counselling Asylum Seeking and Refugee Women Victims of Gender-Based Violence

The purpose of this handbook is to describe a counselling method for assisting refugee women who have been victims of gender-based violence (GBV). The handbook was developed during 2017-2019 in a project titled “Co-creating a counselling method for refugee women GBV victims (CCM-GBV)” funded by the European Commission through the Rights, Equality and Citizenship (REC) Programme. The project included weekly counselling for refugee women in each of the six Member States. In addition, the project collected data on the counselled women’s experiences of violence