1 August 2024 - The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, also known as the Istanbul Convention after the city in which it opened for signature, marks 10 years since it entered into force on 1 August 2014. Since that day, 38 countries have become party to the convention. In October 2023, the treaty entered into force in respect of the European Union, making it also party to the convention. It is the most far-reaching international legal instrument to set out binding obligations to prevent and combat violence against women and girls. 

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KEY DATES

• 30 May 2024, the high-level conference “United around gender equality: making space for women and girls” officially marked the 10th anniversary of the entry into force of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention).
• 1 August 2014 - Entry into force of the Istanbul Convention after receiving its 10th ratification from Andorra on 22 April 2014
• 11 May 2011 - Opening for signature on the occasion of the 121st Session of the Committee of Ministers in Istanbul 
• 7 April 2011 - The text of the convention was adopted by the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers 
• December 2008 - The Committee of Ministers adopted a mandate for the convention’s drafting committee called the CAHVIO (Ad Hoc Committee for preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence). It finalised its work in early 2011