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Closing Conference: Proceedings ID 6826 COUV A4 DOMESTIC CLOTURE def 21/08/08 12:37 Page 1 Council of Europe Campaign to Combat Violence against Women, including Domestic Violence Proceedings Closing Conference Strasbourg, 10 -11 June 2008 Gender Equality and Anti-Trafficking Division Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs Campagne du Conseil de l’Europe pour combattre la violence Council of Europe F-67075 Strasbourg Cedex de clôture Conférence à l’égard des femmes, y compris la violence domestique Division pour l'égalité entre les femmes et les hommes et la lutte contre la traite Actes Direction générale des droits de l’Homme et des affaires juridiques Actes Conseil de l’Europe F-67075 Strasbourg Cedex Conférence de clôture www.coe.int/stopviolence Proceedings/Actes Strasbourg, 10 -11 juin 2008 Closing Conference/ Proceedings EG-VAW-CONF (2008) 1 Bilingual / Bilingue Council of Europe Campaign to Combat Violence against Women, including Domestic Violence Closing conference Strasbourg, 10-11 June 2008 Proceedings Campagne du Conseil de l’Europe pour combattre la violence à l’égard des femmes, y compris la violence domestique Conférence de clôture Strasbourg, 10-11 juin 2008 Actes Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs, Council of Europe September 2008 Gender Equality and Anti-Trafficking Division Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs Council of Europe F-67075 Strasbourg © Council of Europe, 2008. First printing September 2008 Printed at the Council of Europe CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Council of Europe Campaign to Combat Violence against Campagne du Conseil de l’Europe pour combattre la Women, including Domestic Violence … p. 9 violence à l’égard des femmes, y compris la violence domestique … p. 11 PROGRAMME OF THE CLOSING CONFERENCE COUNCIL OF EUROPE CAMPAIGN TO COMBAT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, INCLUDING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Programme … p. 14 PROGRAMME DE LA CONFÉRENCE DE CLÔTURE CAMPAGNE DU CONSEIL DE L’EUROPE POUR COMBATTRE LA VIOLENCE À L’ÉGARD DES FEMMES, Y COMPRIS LA VIOLENCE DOMESTIQUE Programme … p. 20 OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE Address by the Right Honourable Terry Davis, Secretary Discours: M. Paul Wille, Vice-président de l’Assemblée General, Council of Europe … p. 27 parlementaire, Conseil de l’Europe … p. 33 Allocution du Right Honourable Terry Davis, Secrétaire Discours: M. Valerio Prignachi, Président de la Général, Conseil de l’Europe … p. 29 Commission de la cohésion sociale du Congrès des Address: Ms Nyamko Sabuni, Representative of the pouvoirs locaux et régionaux du Conseil de l’Europe … p. 35 Swedish Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe and Minister for Integration and Gender Equality, Sweden … p. 31 COUNCIL OF EUROPE CAMPAIGN TO COMBAT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, INCLUDING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: ASSESSMENT OF THE FIRST EUROPEAN CAMPAIGN Keynote speech: Ms Hilary Fisher, Chair of the Council of Keynote speaker: Mr José Mendes-Bota, Rapporteur of Europe Task Force to Combat Violence against Women, the Parliamentary Assembly, Council of Europe … p. 42 including Domestic Violence … p. 39 « Stop à la violence domestique faite aux femmes » : Conférence de clôture, Strasbourg, 10-11 juin 2008 3 Stop domestic violence againstwomen VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: ANALYSIS OF THE MEASURES AND ACTION TAKEN BY COUNCIL OF EUROPE MEMBER STATES Keynote speaker: Ms Carol Hagemann-White, Council of Europe Consultant, Professor, Faculty of General Pedagogy and Gender Studies, University of Osnabrück, Germany … p. 47 PROPOSALS FOR FUTURE ACTION BY THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE AND ITS MEMBER STATES TO PREVENT AND COMBAT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN Keynote speaker: Ms Dubravka Šimonović, Vice-Chair of the Council of Europe Task Force to Combat Violence against Women, including Domestic Violence … p. 55 NATIONAL GOVERNMENTAL ACTION TO PREVENT AND COMBAT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE CAMPAIGN Speech: Ms Jadranka Kosor, Deputy Prime Minister and Speech: Ms Nyamko Sabuni, Minister for Integration and Minister of Family, Veterans’ Affairs and Intergenerational Gender Equality, Sweden … p. 70 Solidarity, Croatia … p. 61 Speech: Ms Galina Balmos, Minister of Social Protection, Speech: Mr Stefan Wallin, Minister of Culture and Sport Family and Children, Moldova … p. 72 and Minister in the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Speech: Ms Marjeta Zaçe, Deputy Minister of Labour, Finland … p. 63 Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, AlbaniaAlbania Mr Fiorenzo Stolfi, Minister for Foreign and Political … p. 75 Affairs, San Marino … p. 65 Speech: Ms Ivanka Hristova, Deputy Minister of Labour Speech: Ms Doris Bures, Minister for Women, Media and and Social Policy, Bulgaria … p. 77 Civil Service, Austria … p. 68 Speech: Ms Astri Aas Hansen, State Secretary of the Ministry of Justice and the Police, Norway … p. 79 PARLIAMENTARY ACTION TO PREVENT AND COMBAT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE CAMPAIGN Speech: Ms Carina Hägg, Chairperson of the Sub- Speech: Ms Darinka Stantcheva, Member of the Committee on violence against women, Parliamentary Parliamentary Assembly, Council of Europe, Contact Assembly, Council of Europe, Contact Parliamentarian for Parliamentarian for Bulgaria … p. 85 Sweden … p. 83 Speech: Ms Nursuna Memecan, Member of the Parliamentary Assembly, Council of Europe, Contact Parliamentarian for Turkey … p. 87 4 “Stop domestic violence against women”: closing conference, Strasbourg, 10-11 June 2008 Stop à la violence domestique faiteauxfemmes LOCAL AND REGIONAL ACTION TO PREVENT AND COMBAT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE CAMPAIGN Speech: Ms Claudette Baldacchino, Member of the Speech: Ms Britt-Marie Lövgren, Member of the Committee on Sustainable Development of the Congress Committee on Social Cohesion of the Congress of Local of Local and Regional Authorities, Council of Europe and Regional Authorities, Council of Europe … p. 95 … p. 93 GOOD PRACTICES TO PREVENT AND COMBAT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN Keynote speaker: Ms Carolyn Hannan, Director, Division Speech: Ms Karin Nordmeyer, Representative of the for the Advancement of Women, Department of Economic Conference of INGOs enjoying participatory status with and Social Affairs, United Nations … p. 99 the Council of Europe … p. 102 Speech: Ms Gita Sahgal, Head of Gender Unit, Amnesty International … p. 104 EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF NATIONAL MEASURES TO PREVENT AND COMBAT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN Speech: Ms Violeta Murauskaite, Secretary of the Ministry Speech: Mr Duško Minovski, State Secretary of the of Social Security and Labour, Lithuania … p. 109 Ministry of Labour and Social Policy … p. 114 Speech: Ms Sadagat Gahramanova, Deputy Chair of the Speech: Ms Snežana Lakićević Stojačić, State Secretary of State Committee for Family, Women and Children’s Issues, the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, Serbia … p. 117 Azerbaijan … p. 111 Speech: Mr Tigran Sahakyan, Adviser to the Minister of Speech: Mr Miguel Lorente Acosta, Government Delegate Labour and Social Affairs, Armenia … p. 119 for Gender-based Violence, Ministry for Gender Equality, Speech: Mr José Mendes-Bota, Rapporteur of the Spain … p. 113 Parliamentary Assembly, Council of Europe … p. 121 CLOSING OF THE CONFERENCE Closing speech: Ms Maud De Boer-Buquicchio, Deputy Allocution de clôture: Mme Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, Secretary General, Council of Europe … p. 125 Secrétaire Générale Adjointe … p. 127 PARTICIPANTS List of participants/Liste des participant(e)s … p. 129 BLUEPRINT OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE CAMPAIGN Blueprint of the Campaign to Combat Violence against Programme de la Campagne pour combattre la violence à Women, including Domestic Violence, prepared by the l’égard des femmes, y compris la violence domestique, Task Force to Combat Violence against Women, including préparé par la Task Force pour combattre la violence à domestic violence (EG-TFV) and adopted by the l’égard des femmes, y compris la violence domestique (EG- Committee of Ministers on 21 June 2006 … p. 139 TFV) et adopté par le Comité des Ministres le 21 juin 2006 … p. 145 « Stop à la violence domestique faite aux femmes » : Conférence de clôture, Strasbourg, 10-11 juin 2008 5 Introduction blank Page The Closing Conference of the Coun- Many parliamentarians have used Council of cil of Europe Campaign to Combat Vi- their role as contact parliamentarians olence against Women, including for the Campaign to push for legisla- Europe Domestic Violence, was held on 10-11 tive changes to better protect women June 2008 in Strasbourg. It marked the from gender-based violence. Addi- Campaign end of a campaign which united gov- tionally, many have organised parlia- ernments, parliaments and local and mentary debates and hearings on the to Combat regional authorities in their efforts to topic and have issued public state- combat violence against women, in- ments to raise awareness of violence Violence against cluding domestic violence. against women. Local and regional Following the decision of the authorities have similarly drawn at- Women, Heads of State and Government of the tention to the issue by organising Council of Europe member states, this awareness raising weeks, accompa- including Council of Europe Campaign had nied by public debates and other initi- been launched at a high-level confer- atives. Domestic ence in Madrid in November 2006 in During the course of the Cam- the presence of the Spanish prime paign, the Council of Europe sup- Violence minister and the Secretary General of ported governments, parliaments and the Council
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