Kvinnojouren Linnéan

Founded in 1984, Kvinnojouren Linnéan is a non-profit association based in Lidköping, Sweden working on gender equality, children & youth.

Kvinnojouren Linnéan is a non-profit women's shelter association in Lidköping, Sweden. It offers support, counselling and protected accommodation for women and children exposed to violence in close relationships, runs an on-call service and works on prevention through free training on men's violence against women, harmful masculinity norms and sexual health. It also supports relatives of victims and cooperates with social services, police and healthcare locally. The association is politically and religiously independent, is a member of the national federation Unizon and is supervised by IVO for its protected accommodation.