EUROSTAT, the Directorate-General of the EU created to provide statistical information, regularly publishes statistics on sexual violence. As a footnote to these statistics, they include the disclaimer “It should be borne in mind that the figures do not necessarily reflect the actual number of violent sexual crimes. Rather they show to what extent such crimes are reported to and recorded by police. Therefore, the variation between countries is also influenced by general awareness and attitudes to sexual violence offences”. With reporting, recording and prosecution rates of sexual offences substantially below the real rates of occurrence, what can governments and civil society do to close that gap?