Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 47
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Civil society organizations added that a new treaty could make clear the necessity to ensure consistency across different domestic legal regimes. In some States, domestic violence might be a criminal offence, but it was still intrinsically accepted through other procedures, such as mediation and conciliation in family law proceedings.
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Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences