The Safer Internet Helpline, represented by Carolina Soares, participated from 22 to 24 February in the Global Summit on Image Based Sexual Abuse in Miami, Florida, having been invited to participate in the panel "Hotlines and Helplines: Global Examples and Impact".

These were two intense days of work aimed at producing a shared vision and a global action plan built through the knowledge of experts, academics, government actors and victims.

An abridged version of I Didn't Consent: A Global Landscape Report on Image-Based Sexual Abuse was also published. The Safer Internet Helpline, explaining the work it has been doing, contributed to the construction of this report, which aims to raise awareness and deepen understanding of what intimate image-based sexual abuse is, how quickly it can damage the real lives of those whose consent, autonomy and rights have been violated, and offer multiple avenues in how we can - and should - work together to end this sexual abuse.

This summit and report are just the beginning of efforts to elevate, accelerate and unify the global response to the non-consensual creation and distribution of intimate images.

The European Forum for Restorative Justice (EFRJ) promotes a course on victims' needs and good practices. The course "Victims' Needs and Restorative Justice: Good Practices and Safeguards", promoted in the framework of the EFRJ Winter Academy, will take place between 30 January and 3 February in the city of Leuven (Belgium).

The course addresses mainly professionals working in support of victims of crime and offers a practical learning experience on the potential of restorative justice, how to respond to the needs of victims and good practices that help the safe participation of victims in restorative justice. The course will be delivered by Peter Crory (Victim Support Northern Ireland) and Lisa Walter (mediator, Mediante, Belgium).

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Curso “Victims' Needs and Restorative Justice: Good Practices and Safeguards”
EFRJ Winter Academy

The last transnational training event of the project PROTECT took place between 14 and 17 March 2023, at the Facultat de Geografia i Història, Universitat de Barcelona. APAV was present at the event, represented by Ana Castro Sousa, Frederico Marques, Natália Cardoso, Rita Bessa, Rosa Saavedra and Teresa Bettencourt.

Over the last year and a half, the project PROTECT partnership has invested in the development of training contents and of a peer learning system which aims to enhance and improve the skills of victim support and restorative justice professionals in promoting and protecting the rights of victims of crime, in the light of the provisions and requirements arising from the Victims' Directive.

APAV and the partners of the project PROTECT - Associazione Spondé Organizzazione non lucrativa di Attività Sociale (Italy), European Forum for Restorative Justice (Belgium), Forum pour une Justice Restauratrice et pour la Mediation (Belgium), Universitat de Barcelona (Spain), Victim Support Europe (Belgium) and Waage Hannover (Germany) - had the possibility to develop and actively share knowledge, common training methodologies, foster professional skills, debate fracturing issues and establish the way for possible synergies between the two areas of action.

APAV promotes the 4th edition of the APAV Award for Journalism, believing that the quality, relevance and importance of journalism should be recognized.

The award ceremony will take place at El Corte Inglés (sala de Âmbito Cultural), in Lisbon, on January 13.

The award is given annually to the best journalistic piece which, in the previous year, has contributed to the knowledge of the issues or problems related to the support of victims of crime in Portugal. The APAV Prize for Journalism has a monetary value of 1,500 Euros and has the support of El Corte Inglés.

In the first three editions, the prize was awarded to Carolina Reis (Expresso), Luís Vaz Fernandes (Observador) and Sara de Melo Rocha (TSF).