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Women Against Violence Europe (WAVE) is a non-profit feminist women's organization which was established in 1994 and has its headquarters in Vienna, Austria. It is the only European network focused exclusively on the elimination of violence against women and children, and it lobbies state governments and relevant bodies of the Council of Europe at the EU level to gain sustainability of women's ...
The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence, better known as the Istanbul Convention, is a human rights treaty of the Council of Europe opposing violence against women and domestic violence which was opened for signature on 11 May 2011, in Istanbul, Turkey.
The European Commission proposed an EU-wide legislation in this area following a request to act by the European Parliament. In September 2021, Members of the European Parliament called on the European Commission to legislate to prevent violence against women and support the victims. The objective of the initiative was to make violence against ...
The Council of Europe describes violence against women in private sphere, at home or domestic violence, as the main reason of "death and disability" among the women who encountered violence. [260]: 91 In addition, several studies have shown a link between poor treatment of women and international violence.
Violence against women in the United Kingdom (6 C, 18 P) Pages in category "Violence against women in Europe" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Monday said it is concerned about rising "incidents of violence and serious human rights violations" against refugees and migrants in ...
One reason for this growth is the Istanbul Convention against Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence, a convention signed by 47 Council of Europe member states in 2011. [ 50 ] [ 51 ] An article in the Convention sets the creation of women's shelters as a minimum standard for compliance. [ 50 ]
It is important, however, that according to the World Data Bank, femicide rates in Turkey were 0.9 women murdered due to violence against women per 100k women. Which ranks it about the same femicide rate as Istanbul-convention ratifiers such as Germany & Austria, [84] but still significantly higher than most of the other ratifiers. [85]