22 February marks EU Victims Day and awareness is being raised all around Europe, specifically by members of Victim Support Europe. Supporting Justice are getting involved through the following:

The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) is the global authority on the safety, security and environmental performance of international shipping and is a specialised agency of the United Nations.

On 2 January 2017, a passenger’s body was found in the M/V Sharden’s ventilation shaft 2 months after being reported missing. On 23 December 2016, a 74 year-old woman was reported missing from the Queen Mary 2 and was thought…

With such an expanse of victim service providers in the UK, it is essential that victims know about and receive the support and care they are entitled to and that the providers deliver on this. But what does good victim…

There has been considerable improvement over the past few years in services that help support those affected by crime. There were an estimated 6.4 million incidents of crime experienced by adults over the age of 16 in the year ending…

The EU Victims’ Directive (Directive 2012/29/EU) came into effect on 16th November 2015. Its aim is to establish the minimum standards for the equal rights, support and protection to all victims of crime in EU Member States.

The result of the EU referendum last month seemed to take most people by surprise. The seismic shifts that have taken place in our political landscape in such a short space of time are testament to that; no one really…

The “Brexit” debate, which will lead to a defining moment in our history and set the tone and course of our relations with Europe and the rest of the world, has been almost exclusively focused on the economy and immigration.

With the movement of people across the EU being ever more prevalent, partly due to having  low cost airlines available, it is essential that measures are put in place to ensure safety and support for victims of crime, not just…

A core component of the Victims’ Directive (2012/29/EU) comes under Article 8, ‘Right to access victim support services’, and Article 9, Support from victim support services.’[1]

When we think about victims of domestic abuse we may be tempted to think of only of women victims and survivors; and statistics do show that the majority of victims are women. No one would wish to dispute this.

The Victims’ Directive, formally referred to as ‘Directive 2012/29/EU’, came into effect on 16thNovember 2015 and aims to grant equal rights, support and protection to all victims of crime across all member states.