17/06/2009 Equality and Non-Discrimination
Strasbourg, 18.06.2009 - “Combating violence against women, especially in the private sphere, should be enhanced in Europe with a legally binding instrument. I therefore invite the Ministers of Justice to support the current drafting of a convention which can effectively combat the most widespread and most severe forms of violence against women, including domestic violence, and that should encompass the gender dimension”, declared in Tromsø Carina Hägg (Sweden, SOC), Chair of the PACE Sub-Committee on violence against women, at the opening of the 29th Conference of Council of Europe Ministers of Justice.
“The Parliamentary Assembly is more involved than ever to support the efforts to draw a convention on gender-based violence, which should enhance the protection of victims and prosecution of perpetrators. Impunity must be eradicated from Council of Europe member states”, she added.