Violence against women with disabilities 2012, para. 88
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With respect to Europe, both the Council of Europe and the European Union, have their own scheme of human rights instruments. The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, which entered into force in 1953, is the main European human rights convention. Several additional Protocols have been added to its substantive and procedural provisions.
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Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences