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CountryChange to national policy/legislation on violence

against women and related areasIstanbul Convention

Greece

Creation of 9 counselling centres at regional and 27 at local

level aimed at providing psychosocial and legal support;

upgrading of the existing infrastructure; awareness-raising

campaigns and dissemination of information materials in

various languages; continuing training of social counsellors;

creation of 21 shelters for abused women and their children;

mainstreaming of gender-responsive policies in government

action.

Commitment to ratify and

implement

Hungary Including domestic violence as a specific crime; focus on

preventing, awareness raising, education.

Italy

Implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on

“Women and Peace and Security” through a National Action

Plan, which will be reviewed in 2013 to assess its progress;

supporting the UN Trust Fund on Violence against Women

on projects in the MENA (Middle-East and North Africa) and

Sub-Sahara region; advancing the global campaign to end

female genital mutilation.

Commitment to implement

Netherlands

Awareness raising targeting young people; improving co-

ordination to prevent and respond to intimate partner

violence; focus on forced prostitution and trafficking;

implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325

through a second National Action Plan, which focuses on

enhancing the role of women as powerful agents for peace

and security in the MENA region and six other countries.

Commitment to ratify and

implement

Norway

Priority area: domestic violence; research to be launched on

spousal homicide; rethinking of the system of the burden of

proof in cases of domestic violence; continuing to work on

forced marriages and female genital mutilation.

Commitment to ratify

Poland

Harmonising Polish law with the requirements of the

Convention in all aspects regarding prevention and

combating of violence against women and domestic

violence, mainly focusing on education, appropriate data

collection and victim support. In particular, commitment to

change the criminal code so that all rape cases are

persecuted ex officio and criminal proceedings are no

longer wholly dependent on the victim's complaint.

Commitment to ratify

Portugal

Implementing the National Plan Against Domestic Violence,

the Programme for the Elimination of Female Genital

Mutilation and the National Plan Against Trafficking in

Human Beings; focus on awareness raising; strengthening

protection measures and intensifying the training of judges,

prosecutors and security forces; strengthening the financial

capacity for shelters as well as access to housing;

launching a study on female genital mutilation;

strengthening dialogue with migrant associations;

implementing the national action plan on UN Security

Council Resolution 1325.

Commitment to implement