- I WAS A VICTIM OF CRIME: CONSEQUENCES AND REACTIONS
- THE RIGHTS OF VICTMS OF CRIME
- RIGHT TO INFORMATION
- RIGHT TO RECEIVE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE COMPLAINT
- RIGHT TO TRANSLATION
- RIGHT TO VICTIM SUPPORT SERVICES
- RIGHT TO BE HEARD
- RIGHTS IN THE EVENT OF A DECISION NOT TO CHARGE THE DEFENDANT
- RIGHT TO MEDIATION
- RIGHT TO LEGAL INFORMATION AND PROTECTION
- RIGHT TO COMPENSATION FOR PARTICIPATION AND TO REIMBURSEMENT OF EXPENSES
- RIGHT TO THE RETURN OF PROPERTY
- RIGHT TO COMPENSATION
- RIGHT TO PROTECTION
- RIGHTS OF VICTIMS WITH SPECIFIC PROTECTION NEEDS
- RIGHTS OF VICTIMS RESIDENT IN ANOTHER EU MEMBER STATE
- CRIMINAL COURT PROCEEDINGS
- WHO’S WHO IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS
APAV
APAV (Associação Portuguesa de Apoio à Vítima / Portuguese Association for Victim Support) is a national non-profit social solidarity organisation.
APAV works towards promoting awareness, esteem and respect for the status of crime victim in Portugal.
Its mission is to support victims of crime, their families and friends, by providing them quality services that are free of charge and confidential and by contributing to the improvement of public, social and private policies concerned with victim status.
MAIN MISSION:
SUPPORTING THE VICTIMS OF CRIME
APAV supports everyone who was a victim of crime and violence, their families and friends. We support victims of any crime: domestic violence, ill-treatment, threats, murder, sexual crime, kidnapping, abduction, mugging, theft of or with a motor vehicle, pickpocketing, burglary, robbery, fraud, extortion, abuse of trust, document falsification, damage, cybercrime and racial discrimination, among others.
APAV provides victims of crime with the emotional, practical, legal, social and psychological support they need to deal with and overcome the consequences of being a victim of crime. This support is provided by our victim support officers.
To know where we are and how to contact us, please click here.
OTHER IMPORTANT ACTIVITIES
For APAV to achieve an overall sustainable pursuit of its mission, it carries out a wide range of activities and projects throughout the country, including:
- training for professionals and institutions;
- selection, training and supervision of volunteers;
- research and development, to develop knowledge about victims of crime and apply it towards new and better responses;
- housing for women and children who are victims of violence;
- providing information about victims’ rights and fostering social awareness;
- prevention of violence and crime;
- working with the police forces in victim support and protection, training and partnerships in national and international projects;
- using information and communication technologies for victim support;
- fundraising.
PREVENTION
The prevention of crime and violence is an ongoing activity for APAV in its mission to support victims, particularly children and young people. APAV holds awareness-raising programmes in schools and communities on how to prevent crime and violence, how to enhance personal and community safety, thereby reducing the opportunities for crime, and also on how to deal with crime.
SOLIDARITY, QUALITY
The APAV core services are quality assured under Portuguese Standard NP EN ISO 9001:2008.
Quality social solidarity work.