Policy-makers, judges, prosecutors, legal professionals, as well as representatives of academia and civil society can now benefit from updated national studies “Barriers, remedies and good practices for women’s access to justice in the Republic of Moldova” and “Barriers, remedies and good practices for women’s access to justice in Georgia”.

The studies were first prepared in 2017 and updated in 2023 with the aim to identify and support the removal of obstacles to women’s access to justice in these two Eastern Partnership countries, as well as to strengthen the capacity of national authorities to ensure that the justice chain is more gender-responsive.

Both studies now feature an outline of positive developments that have occurred in the countries since their first publication, such as the ratification of the Istanbul Convention by the Republic of Moldova, but also the negative consequences of unforeseen events, namely the global Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine.

These country studies were produced in the framework of the project “Women's Access to Justice: implementing Council of Europe’s gender equality and violence against women standards”, part of the joint European Union and Council of Europe programme “Partnership for Good Governance”.