The lack of gender-perspective punctuates all areas of society, some revelations are more brutal than others. As Frances Crook highlights in the Guardian the failure to acknowledge gender in the British justice and prison system leads to the violation of women’s rights as many women prisoners get engulfed in a vicious cycle of male violence, crime and imprisonment.

Sad – but not surprising – the poverty numbers in Austria, as in many other countries, are climbing. The already staggering numbers of one million – out of eight – in or on the margins of poverty have been increased significantly: according to Martin Schenk of the Armutskonferenz, the amount of people living in poverty will rise by at least 100.000 by the end of the year.