EU Policies on Preventing and Combating against Violence against Women

The European Union is strengthening its efforts in the direction of emphasizing the wide extent and the nature of violence against women. In these efforts, it is supported by its Member-States. They have been using their own initiatives, based on comprehensive data, to participate in the creation of political and practical measures and policies for the prevention of and combating this issue. The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women from 2011 (Istanbul Convention) is the first legally binding regional document that deals comprehensively with various forms of violence against women. The 2012 EU Directive determines minimal standards in the area of justice, protection, and support of victims of crime, whereby special attention is paid to victims of gender-based violence, and victims of sexual violence. Campaigns on the level of member states aim at educating men and women on gender-based violence, encouraging victims to report the criminal act, increasing victim protection, raising awareness on the existence of violence against women, and on the need for prevention and combating it. The member states ought to reexamine their legislature in the part of violence against women and synchronize it with the existing instruments of the Union.

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