The Co-ordination Action on Human Rights Violations (CAHRV, 2004–2006) addresses human rights violations in the context of interpersonal relationships. CAHRV is a broad-based collaboration between research institutions, policy networks, and individual researchers and funded through the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme. Major goals of the action are to integrate parallel research discourses on violence, unify the theoretical and empirical basis for policy, stimulate new interdisciplinary national and trans-national research, and support practitioners, policy makers, and scientists by facilitating the dissemination of knowledge and expertise1 . CAHRV focuses on interpersonal violence, centred conceptually and strategically within a human rights discourse, with the aims of integrating relevant strands of research. Part of this larger project is a focus on interventions in gender-based human rights violations. The aims in this report are to develop a systematic overview of research on the successes and failures of policy and professional practice of statutory and NGO agents in addressing interpersonal violence and to explore the role of civic participation in addressing gendered violence. The companion report focuses on the intersections between criminal, civil and family law in response to gender-based violence.