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On 12 July 2023, the Commission published its proposal for a revision of the Victims' Rights Directive, the key EU legislation on the protection of the rights of victims of crime. The Commission estimates that 15 % of Europeans fall victim to a crime every year. Despite progress in recent years, victims still lack access to information, support and protection. Secondary victimisation during criminal proceedings is still common and victims' access to compensation is not sufficiently supported. Vulnerable ...

Violence directed against a woman because she is a woman, or that affects women disproportionately ('gender-based violence against women') is a violation of fundamental rights, and a major obstacle to gender equality in all EU Member States. Despite increased attention, national legislation does not offer equal protection for women against all forms of gender-based violence across the EU, and there are significant gaps in the measures adopted at EU level. On 8 March 2022, the European Commission ...

Nach Verzögerungen bei der Ratifizierung des Übereinkommens des Europarats zur Verhütung und Bekämpfung von Gewalt gegen Frauen und häuslicher Gewalt hat der Rat um Zustimmung des Parlaments zur Ratifizierung auf Unionsebene ersucht. Der Ausschuss für die Rechte der Frauen und die Gleichstellung der Geschlechter (FEMM) und der Ausschuss für bürgerliche Freiheiten, Justiz und Inneres (LIBE) des Parlaments haben am 25. April 2023 eine befürwortende Empfehlung angenommen. Die Mitglieder sollen im Mai ...

Am 25. Januar 2023 haben der Ausschuss für die Rechte der Frauen und die Gleichstellung der Geschlechter (FEMM) und der Ausschuss für bürgerliche Freiheiten, Justiz und Inneres (LIBE) gemeinsam mit großer Mehrheit ihren Zwischenbericht über den Beitritt der EU zum Übereinkommen des Europarats zur Verhütung und Bekämpfung von Gewalt gegen Frauen und häuslicher Gewalt (Übereinkommen von Istanbul) angenommen. In dem Bericht wird eine zügige Ratifizierung durch die Europäische Union (EU) gefordert, wobei ...

Violence against women is a violation of human rights and a form of gender-based discrimination. Rooted in inequalities between men and women, it takes many forms. Estimates of the scale of the problem are alarming. Such violence has a major impact on victims and imposes a significant cost burden on society. The instruments put in place by the United Nations and Council of Europe, including the latter's 'Istanbul Convention', to which the EU plans to accede, are benchmarks in efforts to combat violence ...

The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention) is the first instrument in Europe to set legally binding standards specifically to prevent gender-based violence, protect victims of such violence and punish perpetrators. EU accession to the Istanbul Convention is a priority in the EU 2020-2025 gender equality strategy. The EU signed the Convention in June 2017. Accession now requires a Council Decision and prior consent ...

Diese von der Fachabteilung Bürgerrechte und konstitutionelle Angelegenheiten des Europäischen Parlaments auf Ersuchen des FEMM-Ausschlusses in Auftrag gegebene Studie bietet einen Überblick über die in den 27 Mitgliedstaaten geltenden rechtlichen Regelungen für Opfer geschlechtsspezifischer Gewalt (einschließlich Kindern). Sie umfasst eine Analyse der in den Mitgliedstaaten und auf Ebene der EU ergriffenen Maßnahmen sowie Empfehlungen zur Verhinderung und Bekämpfung geschlechtsspezifischer Gewalt ...

Gender-based violence, including violence against women and domestic violence, breaches human rights and is an extreme form of gender-based discrimination. However, violence against women and domestic violence are pervasive throughout the European Union (EU). While the full scale of the problem is not known due to a lack of data, the results of the most comprehensive survey on violence against women at EU level to date, published by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) in 2014, provide an indication ...

This briefing provides an initial analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the European Commission's impact assessment (IA) accompanying the above-mentioned proposal, submitted on 8 March 2022 and referred to the European Parliament's Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM). European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced in her political guidelines for the Commission's 2019-2024 term that the EU accession to the Council of Europe's Istanbul Convention on preventing ...

Violence against women is a violation of human rights and a form of gender-based discrimination. Rooted in inequalities between men and women, it takes many forms. Estimates of the scale of the problem are alarming. Such violence has a major impact on victims and imposes a significant cost burden on society. The instruments put in place by the United Nations and Council of Europe, including the latter's 'Istanbul Convention', to which the EU plans to accede, are benchmarks in efforts to combat violence ...