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6 | - Número: 025 | 4 de Fevereiro de 2012

Mr. President, Mme. Michelle Bachelet, Dear Colleagues,

The Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence was opened for signature on the 11th of May last year, in Istambul, at the closing of the Turkish presidency of the Council of Europe.

13 member Estates were there saying yes at this historical moment for the cause of women’s rights, putting its signature in an international legally binding instrument that may change for better the lives of hundreds of millions women in the coming years.

They deserve to be mentioned: Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden and the host country, Turkey.

Since then, almost nine months later, only 5 more member Estates added their signature: Albania, Norway, Slovenia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Ukraine.

29 member Estates are still missing at all.

And the only ratification, decided by the Turkish parliament last 24th November, was not deposited yet on the Secretary General of the Council of Europe. To enter into force, this Convention requires 10 ratifications, 8 of them, must be from member Estates.

One comment only: what a large work is still ahead of us, to give practical consequence to so many years of coherent political efforts involving national parliaments and parliamentarians, especially this Parliamentary Assembly, not forgetting the intergovernmental side of the Council of Europe, the Secretary and the Deputy Secretary General, Mr. Jagland and Mrs. De Buquicchio, the NGOs and so many individuals, so many women that have paid with their lives, blood and pain the justification for the urgent need of such an instrument

Mr. President, Dear Colleagues,

Let me highlight three marking moments on the long journey to the recognition that violence against women is not only a crime, but also a form of discrimination and a human rights violation.
Recommendation (2002) 5, of the Committee of Ministers Pan-european campaign on combating domestic violence (2006-2008) European Court of Human Rights decision on Opuz v. Turkey case

The outcome of all this journey was the Istambul Convention, a unique instrument in the world, to address in a comprehensive way all forms of violence against women, and has a potentially unlimited geographical scope.

It is very unsatisfactory that this Convention remains on the paper. It has to enter into force and be applied as law. This is the aim of this report: make a strong call on further signature and prompt ratification.

This Convention is a landmark instrument, for 5 reasons:
1- It covers all forms of violence against women; 2- It applies to other victims of domestic violence;