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Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence
A Commentary on the Istanbul Convention
9781839107740 Edward Elgar Publishing
This Commentary provides the first comprehensive analysis of the Council of Europe (CoE) Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (the Istanbul
Convention). It offers a complete article-by-article guide to the Convention with reference to the explanatory report, the findings of the monitoring body (GREVIO) and relevant State practice.
Convention). It offers a complete article-by-article guide to the Convention with reference to the explanatory report, the findings of the monitoring body (GREVIO) and relevant State practice.
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This Commentary provides the first comprehensive and holistic analysis of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (the Istanbul Convention). It offers a complete article-by-article guide to the Convention with reference to the
explanatory report, the findings of the monitoring body (GREVIO) and relevant State practice.
• Contributions from more than 50 leading international academics and practitioners in the field.
• A set of thematic chapters dwelling on crucial issues such as intersectionality, reproductive rights, and cyber violence.
• Analyses of the content of each article against the background of relevant international documents such as the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence against Women.
This Commentary will be a vital resource for academics and researchers focused on preventing and countering violence against women, whether in the fields of public international law, gender studies, feminist legal studies, criminal law, or European law. Interdisciplinary in perspective and
intersectional in approach, lawyers, judges, state officials, policymakers and providers of victim support services will find the Commentary’s analysis an invaluable tool for the implementation of the Istanbul Convention.
explanatory report, the findings of the monitoring body (GREVIO) and relevant State practice.
• Contributions from more than 50 leading international academics and practitioners in the field.
• A set of thematic chapters dwelling on crucial issues such as intersectionality, reproductive rights, and cyber violence.
• Analyses of the content of each article against the background of relevant international documents such as the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence against Women.
This Commentary will be a vital resource for academics and researchers focused on preventing and countering violence against women, whether in the fields of public international law, gender studies, feminist legal studies, criminal law, or European law. Interdisciplinary in perspective and
intersectional in approach, lawyers, judges, state officials, policymakers and providers of victim support services will find the Commentary’s analysis an invaluable tool for the implementation of the Istanbul Convention.
Critical Acclaim
‘This book provides a masterful overview of the Istanbul Convention, with its article-by-article commentaries, critical assessments of its strength and weaknesses, and comparisons with other
legal regimes to combat violence against women. Taken as a whole, this book clarifies and illuminates, and is a necessary resource for anyone working in this area.’
– Rebecca J. Cook, University of Toronto, Canada
legal regimes to combat violence against women. Taken as a whole, this book clarifies and illuminates, and is a necessary resource for anyone working in this area.’
– Rebecca J. Cook, University of Toronto, Canada
Contributors
Contributors include: Daniela Alaattinoglu, Chiara Angiolini, Mona Aviat, Rachel Behring, Daniela Belliti, Barbara Giovanna Bello, Lucia Berro Pizzarossa, Elisabetta Bergamini, Alessandro Bernes, Angelica Bonfanti, Biljana Brankovic, Wojciech Burek, Boris Burghardt, Marina Calloni, Elisa Camiscioli, Laura Candiotto, Elena Carpanelli, Rosa Celorio, Francesca Cerulli, Sara Dal Monico, Alexandra David, Sara De Vido, Ester Di Napoli, Eugénie d’Ursel, Federico Faloppa, Gema Fernández Rodríguez de Liévana, Marcella Ferri, Elisa Fornalè, Micaela Frulli, Lisa Gormley, Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, Sital Kalantry, Albena Koycheva, Anne Lagerwall, Laura Lizzi, Francesca Maoli, Isabel Maravall-Buckwalter, Ronagh McQuigg, Kalika Mehta, Victor Manuel Merino-Sancho, Ruth Maria Mestre i Mestre, Bonita Meyersfeld, Ana Montesinos García, Shireen Moti, Möschel, Mathias Johanna Niemi, Cristina Oddone, Alice Ollino, Piergiuseppe Parisi, Lucia Parlato, Lourdes Maria Peroni, Marc Pichard, Ludovica Poli, Luca Poltronieri Rossetti, Karolina Prażmowska, Chiara Ragni, Alice Riccardi, Deborah Russo, Katarzyna Sękowska-Kozłowska, Francesca Sironi De Gregori, Lorena Sosa, Fulvia Staiano, Leonie Steinl, Vladislava Stoyanova, Aslıhan Tekin, Valeria Tevere, Enzamaria Tramontana, Adriane Van der Wilk, Arianna Vettorel, Hayashi Yoko, Keina Yoshida
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