Strasbourg, 31/07/2014 (Agence Europe) - The Council of Europe's convention against violence against women will come into force on 1 August 2014 now that Andorra ratified it on 23 April (see EUROPE 11131). It has now been signed by 23 countries and ratified by 11 of them, thus achieving the stage of being quorate. This, however, is only a first step because it has been accompanied by a rather alarming analysis of policies in place in the 47 Council of Europe member countries.
Only Germany,...