FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS - SOCIETAL ISSUES / Women

Experts highlight progress achieved through Istanbul Convention, despite blows to treaty

Brussels, 06/04/2021 (Agence Europe)

On 11 May 2021, it will be exactly ten years since the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women - or the Istanbul Convention - was opened for signature. In anticipation of this anniversary, the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU organised a one-day conference on Tuesday 6 April on gender violence in the EU.

This day was an opportunity to take stock of the implementation of the Convention, in the presence of Carlien Scheele, Director of the...