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More action needed to promote the role of women in the fight against cybercrime
Women have a crucial role to play in effective criminal justice responses to cybercrime, stated participants in the International Conference on promoting the role of women in preventing, investigating and prosecuting cybercrimes organised by the Council of Europe in cooperation with the...
Protecting women and girls from violence in the digital age – How can international treaties complement one another in dynamic ways ?
Today, the Secretariat of the Violence Against Women Division of the Council of Europe published a comparative study assessing the relevance of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention) and the Council of Europe...
International Association of Women Judges, Octopus Project and GLACY+: Regional conference on cyberviolence and electronic evidence in Latin America and the Caribbean
Around 70 participants from across Latin America and the Caribbean gathered on 26 and 27 November for an online regional conference on cyberviolence and e-evidence organised by the International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ) with the support of the Octopus Project and GLACY+ project of the...
High level webinar discusses innovative strategies to ending online violence against girls and women
Organised on the occasion of the 65th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW65) by Germany’s Presidency of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers, the Council of Europe and the National Council of German Women`s Organisations, this high level side event was livestreamed on...
Webinar on Cyberviolence against Women
A new online event in the series of C-PROC webinars on cyberviolence took place on Thursday, 12 November 2020. This webinar focused on cyberviolence against women by including presentations and discussions to raise awareness about the Istanbul Convention, the 2019 Recommendation on preventing and...
T-CY Mapping Study on Cyberviolence: recommendations
Recommendations at the level of the Council of Europe and Cybercrime Convention Committee: The Council of Europe (T-CY Secretariat and C-PROC) should consider making available online information on cyberviolence included in the present study on existing policies, strategies, preventive,...