The Gender Equality Unit of the Council of Europe is implementing a project on “Improving women’s access to justice in Five Eastern Partnership countries” (2015-2016). The countries covered by this project are: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine. The project is funded as part of the CoE/EU 2015 – 2017 Eastern Partnership Programmatic Co-operation Framework and it has been designed to contribute to the implementation of the Council of Europe Gender Equality Strategy (2014-2017) in particular one of its five objectives: “Guaranteeing equal access of women to justice”.