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Protecting Women against Violence. Analytical Study on the Effective Implementation of Recommendation Rec(2002)5 on the Protection of Women against Violence in Council of Europe member States

Document number
1636
Date
2007
Title
Protecting Women against Violence. Analytical Study on the Effective Implementation of Recommendation Rec(2002)5 on the Protection of Women against Violence in Council of Europe member States
Author/publisher
Prof. Dr. Carol Hagemann-White, Sabine Bohn, Gender Equality and Anti-Trafficking Division, Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs, Council of Europe
Availability
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Document type(s)
Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
Recommendation Rec(2002)5 on the protection of women against violence, adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in April 2002
Summary
For an overall picture, this report has focussed on main areas where, according to the Blueprint and to existing research, action is needed in all countries: legal and policy measures, support and protection for victims, data collection, training and awareness raising. The objective is to assess progress and problems in addressing all forms of violence by intimate partners and family members as well as all sexual coercion and violation. The analysis is made more specific and practical by using concrete examples. There are a number of member states in which both governments and NGOs have been combating violence against women for twenty years or more. There, measures have been piloted, their effectiveness assessed, policies revised, laws amended and new approaches tried out. Many of the suggestions in Rec(2002)5 are based on this store of experience. The present report cannot do full justice to this wealth of activities. Rather, an attempt has been made to give recognition to efforts made over the wide geographic range of the Council of Europe and under the various socio-economic and historical conditions in the different states and regions.
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