The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention) and its specific provisions for migrant, refugee and asylum seeking women was in the focus of two recent events: the seminar on Preventing, Combating and Responding to Sexual and Gender Based Violence and Trafficking in Human Beings in the Context of Asylum and Migration organised by the Lithuanian National Courts Administration in cooperation with UNHCR and the Council of Europe (Vilnius, Lithuania, 30 October 2018) and the session “Human rights of migrant, refugee, asylum seeking women and girls” organised by the Council of Europe in partnership with Women’s Refugee Commission during the World Bank Law and Justice Development Week 2018 (Washington DC, 5 November 2019). The convention contains specific provisions in relation to protecting and upholding human rights of migrant, refugee and asylum seeking women and girls.

For more information about such provisions please consult our factsheet: Protecting migrant women, refugee women and women asylum seekers from gender based violence.