Protecting women and girls from violence in the digital age - The relevance of the Istanbul Convention and the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime in addressing online and technology-facilitated violence against women
Spanish version

 Mid-term Horizontal Review of GREVIO's Baseline Reports (re-edited in February 2022)

 Questions and answers on the Istanbul Convention

General Leaflet on the Istanbul Convention

General Leaflet on the monitoring mechanism

 A global tool to prevent and combat violence against women 

 Combating violence against women : minimum standards for support services


Collection of papers addressing the topic of preventing violence against women

 Ensuring the non-discrimination implementation of measures against violence against women and domestic violence:  Article 4, paragraph 3 of the Istanbul Convention

 Ensuring data collection and research: Article 11 of the Istanbul Convention (2016)

Prevention of violence against women: Article 12 of the Istanbul Convention  

 Raising awareness of violence against women : Article 13 of the Istanbul Convention

 Preventing violence against women through formal and informal education: Article 14 of the Istanbul Convention

 Domestic and sexual violence perpetrator programmes: Article 16 of the Istanbul Convention  

 Encouraging the participation of the private sector and the media in the prevention of violence against women and domestic violence : Article 17 of the Istanbul Convention

Emergency barring orders in situations of domestic violence : Article 52

 Gender-based asylum claims and non-refoulement: Articles 60 and 61 of the Istanbul Convention


Amnesty International and the Council of Europe guide on female genital mutilation - 2014

“The Istanbul Convention – A tool to end female genital mutilation” - Council of Europe / Amnesty International - Guide


Thematic Factsheets

 12 steps to comply with the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combatting violence against women and domestic violence 

 Children's rights ;  Stalking

 Protection migrant women, refugee women, and women asylum-seekers from gender-balanced violence

 Crimes committed in the name of so-called "honour" ;  Female Genital Mutilation

 An instrument to promote greater equality between women and men

Factsheet on the Istanbul Convention


Other publications

 Analytical study of the results of the 4th round of monitoring the implementation of Recommendation  Rec(2002)5 on the protection of women against violence in Council of Europe member states

 CSW 57 Agreed Conclusions

Mapping support services for victims of violence against women in Kosovo* (available in English, Albanian and Serbian)

 The CSW 57 Agreed conclusions on the elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against  women and girls and the Istanbul Convention

Regional Tools to Fight Violence Against Women - The Belém do Pará and Istanbul Conventions


Norway Grants

 Improving the effectiveness of law-enforcement and justice officers in combating violence against women and domestic violence

 Enhancing the professional capacity of the Bulgarian Police to deal with cases of domestic violence and violence against women

 Implementing Article 10 of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence – establishing national co-ordinating bodies

 Implementing a comprehensive and co-ordinated approach - An assessment of Poland's response to prevent and combat gender-based violence

 Training of Trainers Manual : Effective Multi-agency Co-operation for Preventing and Combatting Domestic Violence

 Preventing and Combating Domestic Violence against Women : A learning resource for training law enforcement and justice officers