P113 - Unveiling Awareness and Attitudes: Exploring Honour-Based Violence Perception Among University Students in Catalonia, Spain

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Abstract

Honour-based violence is a manifestation of violence against women that has so far been scarcely addressed in Spain beyond forced marriages and female genital mutilation. The research presented here aims to discover what level of awareness and knowledge the university population has of this reality, what attitude it has towards this type of violence and what legal response it deserves. With these objectives in mind, an online survey was designed and completed by university students from various undergraduate, master's and doctoral programmes at 8 universities in Catalonia -5 in Barcelona, 1 in Tarragona, 1 in Lleida and 1 in Girona-, the geographical area in Spain with the highest percentage of immigrant population and where most cases of forced marriages have been reported to date. This contribution presents the structure of the instrument used to collect data, the socio-demographic characteristics of the sample and the first results obtained.

Authors

• Carolina Villacampa, University of Lleida

• Marc Salat, University of Lleida

• Clàudia Torres Ferrer, University of Lleida