Reply
| Doc. 12100
| 18 December 2009
- Author(s):
- Committee of Ministers
- Origin
- adopted at the 1073rd meeting of
the Ministers’ Deputies (9 December 2009) 2010 - First part-session
- Reply to
- Recommendation 1861
(2009)
- Thesaurus
1. The Committee of Ministers has taken
due note of Parliamentary Assembly
Recommendation 1861 (2009) on “Feminicides”.
It fully shares the Assembly’s views that the Council of Europe,
the guarantor of human rights in Europe, has an important role to
play in combating violence against women, including domestic violence.
2. The need for reinforced action by the Council of Europe to
prevent and combat violence against women was recognised by the
Heads of State and Government in their Action Plan adopted during
the Third Summit of the Organisation, in Warsaw, in May 2005. This
action has been embodied in the Council of Europe Campaign to combat
violence against women, including domestic violence, to which the
Parliamentary Assembly contributed very significantly. The campaign
also benefited from the active participation of a large number of
member states and of that of observer states, among which Mexico,
as the Assembly rightly outlines.
3. It was, in particular, in the light of the results of this
campaign, the work of the Task Force to Combat Violence against
Women, including Domestic Violence and the conclusions of the 27th
Council of Europe Conference of Ministers of Justice held in October
2006 in Yerevan (Armenia), that the Committee of Ministers decided
to entrust the Ad hoc Committee on preventing and combating violence
against women and domestic violence (CAHVIO) to draw up a legally
binding framework to uphold this action. The Committee of Ministers confirms
that the work of this committee is open to member states as well
as to all observer states.
4. Regarding the proposal that the Council of Europe take specific
measures within the framework of a co-operation and assistance programme
with Mexico, the Committee of Ministers can only reiterate the reply
given to the preceding request formulated by the Assembly in its
Recommendation 1709 (2005).
The Committee of Ministers welcomes the progress made by the authorities
of the United States of Mexico in combating violence against women
and disappearances and murders of women and girls in Mexico, as
underlined by the Assembly in its
Resolution 1654 (2009). It encourages
the Mexican Government to pursue action along these lines.
5. The Committee of Ministers has taken note of the Assembly’s
proposal to create a body within the Council of Europe to gather
specific data on cases of violence against women, in particular
feminicides in Europe. It observes, in the light of the interim
report submitted by the CAHVIO after its first two meetings that the
issue of data collection is taken duly into account in the preparatory
work carried out by this committee.
