The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention)
Violence against women is a structural and global phenomenon that knows no social, economic or national boundaries. It is a serious violation of human rights and remains widely unsanctioned. Every day in Europe, women are psychologically and physically abused in the “safety” of their own homes, stalked, harassed, raped, mutilated, forced by their family to …