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Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 58
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- The scope of State obligations to address gender-based violence against women has been further expanded and explained through the adoption of several other general recommendations related to such violence, concluding observations, decisions on individual communications and reports of inquiries regarding individual States parties. These instruments have also been used by the Committee to regularly address emerging forms of gender-based violence against women and its underlying causes, as well as its link to other forms of discrimination and the context in which gender-based violence against women occurs.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Women
- Année
- 2017
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Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 84
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- The submissions received from civil society organizations on the adequacy of the existing legal framework represent a great diversity of responses. These views, together with those of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and regional mechanisms, have been an extremely enriching contribution to the debate on the adequacy of the legal framework on violence against women. Almost all submissions emphasized the role of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women as a dynamic, living instrument that encompasses violence against women as a form of discrimination against women and the progressive interpretation of the Convention through the adoption of successive general recommendations on violence against women by the Committee, as well as other related subjects, such as the core obligations on States to implement the Convention, access to justice (general recommendation No. 33 (2015) on women’s access to justice) and the rights of women and girls in conflict and post-conflict situations (general recommendation No. 30 (2013) on women in conflict prevention, conflict and post-conflict situations), along with all the other general recommendations. A significant number of submissions pointed out that the lack of a specific global treaty on gender-based violence against women had important symbolic value and further indicated that a new treaty could have an important role in galvanizing implementation at the State level. That symbolic value and potential to act as a catalyst for change was particularly compelling in the broader Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions, which were the only ones that did not have a specific regional treaty on violence against women.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2017
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Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 96d
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- [The Special Rapporteur makes the following specific recommendations:] States should prioritize implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, in particular Goal 5 (gender equality and empowerment of all women and girls), including by developing indicators on target 5.2 (elimination of violence against women) on femicide, shelters and protection orders, and support national plans to implement all of the Goals in a gender-responsive manner. The Sustainable Development Goal process must not, however, derogate from the obligation of States to respect, protect and fulfil women’s human rights in all fields of life, in accordance with existing international human rights law in customary law and treaty obligations. An independent monitoring mechanism should be integrated into this process;
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2017
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Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 42
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- Concerning those civil society organizations submissions supporting a new stand-alone treaty with a new separate monitoring body, among the main arguments regarding the need for a new global treaty on violence against women were the need to close the normative gap, the lack of a legally binding definition of gender-based violence against women and the necessity for a global legally binding standard and universal language to reflect the global nature of the problem. Several arguments highlighted how “violence against women is the most widespread human rights violation on Earth” and that “a global phenomenon should have a global and specific response”. Civil society organizations also called for the production of a report on global progress and strategic development, as “violence against women is currently a theme rather than an objective” and needed to be addressed as a global priority.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Women
- Année
- 2017
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Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 94
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- The Special Rapporteur believes that, under Sustainable Development Goal 5, new energy and resources should be focused on bridging the incorporation and implementation gaps between international and national law and policy, including with regard to better use of existing global and regional mechanisms on violence against women, including data collection and indicators on gender-based violence against women, femicide, and shelters and protection orders.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Personnes concernées
- Women
- Année
- 2017
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Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 85
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- The Special Rapporteur believes that the lack of full incorporation and application of international norms at the domestic level, including the Convention and other instruments, is the main challenge faced in addressing gender-based violence against women. This problem should be more vigorously addressed by the different measures recommended in the present report, among which is the examination of the adequacy of the current legal framework. The Special Rapporteur believes that a global implementation plan on violence against women could be a proper response to address all initiatives and proposals contained in the numerous submissions received.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Women
- Année
- 2017
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Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 96h
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- [The Special Rapporteur makes the following specific recommendations:] States should establish a “femicide watch” to collect, analyse and review data on gender-based violence at the national, regional and global levels and collect and publish annual data on the number of femicides. Each femicide should be carefully examined to identify any failure of protection, with a view to improving and further developing preventive measures. States should also increase their efforts to use all available global and regional women’s human rights instruments and expert mechanisms to put in place effective systems to prevent and end femicide and gender-based violence against women and girls.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2017
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Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 61
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- Currently, global monitoring and advisory bodies such as the Committee and the mandate of the Special Rapporteur already accomplish a significant amount of work in monitoring and supporting State compliance with international standards for gender-based violence against women. It would be challenging to see how another global-level monitoring mechanism could address the critical issues related to violence against women, when in all likelihood, the structure, powers, mandate and resources of such a mechanism would be analogous to those of the current global bodies whose successful impact and engagement with member States depend on various factors, including political will, the competition for scarce resources at the country level, the determinants of human rights-compliant culture that exist in that State and other sociopolitical factors.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Women
- Année
- 2017
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Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 29
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- Civil society organizations also claimed that the current framework failed to address violence against women in specific contexts such as violence against women in conflict; situations of “invisible violence”, namely economic violence and psychological violence against, for instance, women belonging to minority groups; and the specific experiences of children exposed to violence against women. They also pointed out that, among the substantive issues that were missing in the current legal framework, there was the need to create an intersectionality of approach, including the initiatives by the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Human Rights Council and the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Année
- 2017
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Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 95
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- The Rapporteur believes that an interesting option would be the establishment of an open-ended working group on addressing gender-based violence against women in law and policy, open to all States Members of the United Nations and aimed at strengthening the protection of women’s human rights. The to-be-created working group would analyse the adequacy of the existing international framework on women’s rights and gaps in its incorporation and implementation. It would also be entitled to suggest solutions, including considering, as appropriate, the feasibility of further instruments and implementation measures, with the support of the Secretary-General. The mandate of the Special Rapporteur would play an active role in guaranteeing that an approach based on women’s human rights is provided within its work.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Women
- Année
- 2017
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Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 13
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- Given this premise, the Special Rapporteur invited global and regional human rights mechanisms that monitor the implementation of international and regional instruments on violence against women to send their views and inputs on the need for a new instrument on violence against women and the existing gaps and shortcomings in the implementation and incorporation of the current legal framework. Their responses were collected and summarized in the report to the General Assembly. In the preparation of the present report, the Special Rapporteur invited all other stakeholders, including States, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), other special procedures mandate holders and treaty bodies, as well as national human rights institutions and members of academia, to send their views and inputs in response to a call for submissions on this issue that was published on her official web page. The Rapporteur indicated that, after collection of their responses, a comprehensive assessment would be carried out on the adequacy of the international framework on violence against women and possible actions needed.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Women
- Année
- 2017
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Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 17
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- The Inter-American Court of Human Rights stressed the importance of dialogue with special procedures mechanisms in order to strengthen the development and effective implementation of human rights standards around the world. The Court noted that it had developed a significant body of case law on all forms of violence against women and relevant international standards on sexual violence, as well as on violence against women as a form of torture.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Women
- Année
- 2017
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Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 33
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- Funding was also reported as a key issue. Governments were not willing to fund initiatives, and often pleaded a lack of resources when challenged about poor performance with regard to implementing the rules on violence against women.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Women
- Année
- 2017
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Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 90
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- It is also important to recall that the process for such a development would need to be carefully considered, making sure that existing standards are not undermined.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Personnes concernées
- N.A.
- Année
- 2017
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Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 55
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- Finally, some organizations underscored that any new treaty would also need a confidential complaints procedure that protected victims and ensured mandatory reporting and documentation of complaints and the provision of services, resources and reparation.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Personnes concernées
- All
- Année
- 2017
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Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 40
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- In relation to Convention norms and standards, civil society organizations highlighted that international instruments should focus on further clarifying State obligations to reflect the current complexities of global political and economic systems that had contributed to the perpetuation of gender-based violence against women, as well as acted as a barrier to eliminating gender-based violence against women. The increasing incidence of gender-based violence against women committed by entities such as corporations and non-State military actors, owing to the power imbalance caused by the prevalence of neo-liberal economic policies and increasing armed conflict, should be reflected in instruments of the Convention. Civil society organizations further suggested that the Committee should expand upon the definition of non-State actors and identify the scope of obligations imposed upon them. Extra focus should also be dedicated to spelling out more detailed State obligations concerning laws and policies aimed at eliminating gender-based violence against women. For instance, common references to substantive, evidentiary and procedural laws that represented an obstacle for survivors of violence seeking justice should be outlined. In reflecting national practices, the Committee could also draw upon good practices of States in implementing legal, policy or programmatic approaches and solutions in addressing gender-based violence against women. Finally, civil society organizations agreed that the updating of general recommendation No. 19 by the Committee provided an opportunity for such synergies.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Women
- Année
- 2017
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Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 80
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- Building on general recommendation No. 19 and general recommendation No. 30 (2013) on women in conflict prevention, conflict and post-conflict situations, general recommendation No. 35 urges States parties to strengthen their obligations with regard to gender-based violence against women, whether territorially or extraterritorially, and calls upon States to adopt several provisions in the areas of prevention, protection, prosecution and redress that should be implemented with a victim- and survivor-centred approach aimed at avoiding revictimization.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Women
- Année
- 2017
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Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 73
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- Given this premise, since the beginning of her tenure, the Special Rapporteur has encouraged the debate on possible solutions to the existing fragmentation of policies and legislation addressing violence against women. In fact, one of her main priorities is to contribute to closing the gap in the incorporation and implementation of existing international and regional instruments on violence against women and providing victims with adequate protection measures and services, including shelters and protection orders, as well as efficient remedies.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Women
- Année
- 2017
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Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 96f
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- [The Special Rapporteur makes the following specific recommendations:] States should repeal all provisions and procedures that are discriminatory against women and girls, and that thereby facilitate and allow for the toleration of any form of gender-based violence against them, including legislation justifying harmful practices against women, but also abrogate or modify those gender-neutral laws and policies which may prevent women and girls from fully enjoying their human rights in both the private and public spheres;
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 75
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- To that end, the Special Rapporteur decided to revive the discussion on the adequacy of international, regional and national legal frameworks to prevent and combat violence against women, including with regard to the creation of a new legal instrument addressing violence against women. In that respect, it is also important to recall important steps that have recently taken place, such as the recent adoption of the Committee’s general recommendation No. 35, in which the Special Rapporteur actively participated.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Women
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 102
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- In any case, the decision related to the necessity of any new instrument or a global action plan on violence against women should be assessed and discussed through proper inclusive consultations carried out by the States Members of the United Nations and the State parties to the Convention, with the participation of independent global and regional mechanisms, non-governmental organizations, national human rights institutions and all other stakeholders. The mandate of the Special Rapporteur stands ready to further contribute to such discussions.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Women
- Année
- 2017
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Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 67
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- Some also suggested the creation of a “femicide watch”, while others suggested the creation of an international watch centre for violence against women, which would include annual reports on each country’s “project implementing and monitoring committees”, which could be an international grouping of civil society organizations. Local monitoring organizations could meet monthly at the district level, and quarterly at the state and national level, to evaluate outcomes and achievements with regard to integrating international and regional standards into monitoring processes and including exchanges and forums between lawyers, women’s organizations, government leaders and local communities.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Women
- Année
- 2017
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Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 18
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- The group of experts of the Council of Europe on action against violence against women and domestic violence stressed that the current international political climate and economic situation were not conducive to the drafting of an additional instrument on women’s rights, and that creating such an instrument would pose a foreseeable risk of falling behind the existing standards established by the Committee and its general recommendation No. 19, let alone more advanced standards set out in the Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence. It believed that the introduction of another instrument at the current stage, albeit at the global level, would be premature and pose a challenge to the implementation of existing norms and standards. Priority should be accorded to ensuring the full implementation of the treaties and other instruments that already existed, rather than creating new standards.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Women
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 64
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- According to others, the United Nations and States should prioritize publicity around existing Committee general recommendations, United Nations resolutions and existing mechanisms. In addition, the Committee could place more emphasis on violence against women in its monitoring and concluding observations and follow-up processes. Also, additional resources would enable the Committee to use its inquiry procedure more often and realize its potential to achieve systemic change within State practice, and prioritize publicity about Committee processes when domestic remedies fail.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Women
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 41
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- A comparatively large majority of the civil society organization interventions expressed support for a new treaty. Yet, only a few provided detailed arguments in support of such a treaty. In fact, less than 50 per cent provided exhaustive reasons.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Personnes concernées
- N.A.
- Année
- 2017
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Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 76
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- Complementary to her participation in the update of general recommendation No. 19 and in the strengthening of cooperation with regional mechanisms, the Special Rapporteur also called, at the beginning of her tenure as mandate holder, for renewed attention to the need for States to consider developing guidelines under the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women to assist in the implementation of the principles set forth in the main international and regional instruments on violence against women.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Women
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 91
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- The Special Rapporteur supports the interpretation of violence against women as a form of discrimination against women and girls and a human rights violation. Therefore, the option of creating a separate treaty would expose the existing legal framework under the Convention on violence against women to the risk of isolating provisions aimed at addressing gender-based violence against women from the structural causes of discrimination against women.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 32
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- Civil society organizations also pointed out that States needed a clear understanding of their obligations with regard to non-compliance and more technical assistance for better implementation. Furthermore, several submissions highlighted that the rules on exhaustion of domestic remedies made it hard for women to seek justice, as exhaustion of domestic remedies could pose problems when a State’s law and policies were inherently arbitrary and unjust towards women. In general, civil society organizations made it clear that rules against gender-based violence had to be settled in a way that all spheres of States clearly understood it, including the economic and policy world, and that the focus should be on bottom-up implementation.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Women
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 28
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- Several organizations stressed that it was important to situate analysis on violence against women within a broader gender equality context across the range of gender-based discrimination, and that therefore the Convention was still framing the issue on the basis of the best interpretative approach. According to those sources, it was a priority to focus on the structural issues — personal status law, women’s economic marginalization and inequality — that permitted violence against women to persist, and it would be inconsistent to address them in isolation from gender discrimination more generally.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Women
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 24
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- Even though civil society organizations didn’t express a unitary perspective on the current debate on the adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women, the Special Rapporteur could identify some recurrent concerns, which have been grouped under the following categories: (a) support for a new stand-alone treaty with a new separate monitoring body; (b) opposition to such a treaty and proposals to strengthen existing instruments; (c) support for the strengthening of the current legal framework and mechanisms with the possible adoption of a new optional protocol under the Convention as a long-term solution; and (d) other innovative proposals.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- N.A.
- Women
- Année
- 2017
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