CETS 210 – Violence against women and domestic violence, 11.V.2011
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Article 32 – Civil consequences of forced marriages
Parties shall take the necessary legislative or other measures to ensure that marriages
concluded under force may be voidable, annulled or dissolved without undue financial or
administrative burden placed on the victim.
Article 33 – Psychological violence
Parties shall take the necessary legislative or other measures to ensure that the intentional
conduct of seriously impairing a person’s psychological integrity through coercion or threats is
criminalised.
Article 34 – Stalking
Parties shall take the necessary legislative or other measures to ensure that the intentional
conduct of repeatedly engaging in threatening conduct directed at another person, causing
her or him to fear for her or his safety, is criminalised.
Article 35 – Physical violence
Parties shall take the necessary legislative or other measures to ensure that the intentional
conduct of committing acts of physical violence against another person is criminalised.
Article 36 – Sexual violence, including rape
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Parties shall take the necessary legislative or other measures to ensure that the following
intentional conducts are criminalised:
a
engaging in non-consensual vaginal, anal or oral penetration of a sexual nature of the
body of another person with any bodily part or object;
b
engaging in other non-consensual acts of a sexual nature with a person;
c
causing another person to engage in non-consensual acts of a sexual nature with a third
person.
2
Consent must be given voluntarily as the result of the person’s free will assessed in the
context of the surrounding circumstances.
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Parties shall take the necessary legislative or other measures to ensure that the provisions of
paragraph 1 also apply to acts committed against former or current spouses or partners as
recognised by internal law.
Article 37 – Forced marriage
1
Parties shall take the necessary legislative or other measures to ensure that the intentional
conduct of forcing an adult or a child to enter into a marriage is criminalised.
2
Parties shall take the necessary legislative or other measures to ensure that the intentional
conduct of luring an adult or a child to the territory of a Party or State other than the one she
or he resides in with the purpose of forcing this adult or child to enter into a marriage is
criminalised.
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