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COUV A4 DOMESTIC def 6/07/07 9:45 Page 1 Council of Europe Campaign to Combat Violence against Women, including Domestic Violence Proceedings Launching Conference Madrid, 27 November 2006 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 lancement 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 lancement www.coe.int/stopviolence Proceedings/Actes Madrid, 27 novembre 2006 Launching Conference/ Proceedings ESPAÑA EG-VAW-conf (2007) 1 Council of Europe Campaign to Combat Violence against Women, including Domestic Violence Launching conference Madrid, 27 November 2006 Proceedings Campagne du Conseil de l’Europe pour combattre la violence à l’égard des femmes, y compris la violence domestique Conférence de lancement Madrid, 27 novembre 2006 Actes Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs, Council of Europe June 2007 Gender Equality and Anti-Trafficking Division Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs Council of Europe F-67075 Strasbourg © Council of Europe, 2007. First printing June 2007 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. 10 PROGRAMME OF THE LAUNCHING CONFERENCE COUNCIL OF EUROPE CAMPAIGN TO COMBAT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, INCLUDING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Programme … p. 12 PROGRAMME DE LA CONFÉRENCE DE LANCEMENT CAMPAGNE DU CONSEIL DE L’EUROPE POUR COMBATTRE LA VIOLENCE À L’ÉGARD DES FEMMES, Y COMPRIS LA VIOLENCE DOMESTIQUE Programme … p. 16 OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE Words of welcome by Mr Juan José Lucas, Second Vice- Opening of the conference by Mr Terry Davis, Secretary President of the Senate, Spain … p. 23 General, Council of Europe … p. 25 VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: SITUATION IN COUNCIL OF EUROPE MEMBER STATES Keynote speech: Ms Carol Hagemann-White, Professor, Faculty of General Pedagogy and Gender Studies, University of Osnabrück, Germany … p. 29 SUPPORT AND PROTECTION OF VICTIMS Address: Ms Rosemarie Zapfl-Helbling, Vice-Chairperson Speech: Ms Nimet Çubukçu, State Minister for Women of the Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and and Family Affairs, Turkey … p. 38 Men of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Speech: Ms Darinka Stantcheva, Member of the Europe … p. 35 Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe … p. 40 Keynote speech: Mr Thomas Hammarberg, Speech: Ms Sandra Barnes, Member of the Congress of Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe Local and Regional Authorities, Council of Europe … p. 42 … p. 36 « Stop à la violence domestique faite aux femmes » : Conférence de lancement, Madrid, 27 novembre 2006 3 Stop domestic violence against women INNOVATIVE LEGAL AND POLICY MEASURES TO COMBAT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN – DATA COLLECTION AS A PREREQUISITE FOR EFFECTIVE POLICIES Address: Ms Dubravka Šimonović, Chairperson of the Speech: Ms Soledad Murillo, Secretary General on Equal Council of Europe Task Force to Combat Violence against Opportunities, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Women, including Domestic Violence … p. 47 Spain … p. 55 Keynote speech: Ms Tuula Haatainen, Minister for Social Allocution : M. Jean-Guy Branger, Membre de l’Assemblée Affairs and Health, Finland … p. 49 parlementaire, Conseil de l’Europe … p. 57 Speech: Ms Donatella Linguiti, Secretary of State, Speech: Ms Genoveva Tisheva, Managing Director, Ministry for Rights and Equal Opportunities, Italy … p. 51 Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation, Bulgaria … p. 59 Speech: Ms Meg Munn, Deputy Minister for Women and Speech: Ms Sylvia Walby, Professor, Sociology Equality, United Kingdom … p. 53 Department, Lancaster University, United Kingdom … p. 61 SOLEMN LAUNCHING CEREMONY Welcoming address by Mr Francisco Javier Rojo García, Allocution : M. Fiorenzo Stolfi, Président du Comité des President of the Senate, Spain … p. 65 Ministres, Conseil de l’Europe … p. 71 Address by Mr René van der Linden, President of the Address by Mr Terry Davis, Secretary General, Council of Parliamentary Assembly, Council of Europe … p. 67 Europe … p. 73 Address by Mr Ian Micallef, President of the Chamber of Allocution : M. Terry Davis, Secrétaire Général, Conseil Local Authorities of the Congress of Local and Regional de l’Europe … p. 75 Authorities, Council of Europe … p. 69 Address by Mr José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Prime Minister, Spain … p. 77 CHANGING ATTITUDES TO COMBAT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN Address: Mr Pēteris Elferts, Ambassador Extraordinary Speech: Ms Jadranka Kosor, Deputy Prime Minister and and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of Latvia to Minister of Family, Veterans’ Affairs and Intergenerational the Council of Europe, Thematic Co-ordinator on Gender Solidarity, Croatia … p. 87 Equality of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Speech: Ms Susana Camarero Benítez, Member of the Europe … p. 83 Congress of Deputies, Spain … p. 89 Keynote speech: Ms Yakin Etürk, United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and Speech: Ms Isabel Llinàs, Director of the Women’s consequences … p. 84 Institute of the Balearic Islands, Spain … p. 91 Speech: Ms Karine Henrotte-Forsberg, Representative of the Conference of INGOs enjoying participatory status with the Council of Europe … p. 93 UNITED IN COMBATING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN Keynote speech: Ms Widney Brown, Senior Director, Speech: Ms María Antonia Martínez García, Member of International Law, Policy and Campaigns, Amnesty the Senate, Co-rapporteur of the Inter-Parliamentary International … p. 97 Union on “How parliaments can and must promote Allocution : Mme Catherine Vautrin, Ministre déléguée à la effective ways of combating violence against women in all cohésion sociale et à la parité, France … p. 100 fields”, Spain … p. 102 4 “Stop domestic violence against women”: Launching conference, Madrid, 27 November 2006 Stop à la violence domestique faite aux femmes Speech: Mr Ramón Ropero Mancera, Member of the Speech: Ms Hijran Huseynova, Chairperson of the State Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, Council of Committee for Family, Women and Children’s Issues, Europe … p. 105 Azerbaijan … p. 107 CLOSING SESSION Allocution de clôture : M. Philippe Boillat, Directeur Allocution de clôture : Mme Minodora Cliveti, Présidente général des droits de l’homme, Conseil de l’Europe de la Commission sur l’égalité des chances pour les femmes … p. 111 et les hommes de l’Assemblée parlementaire du Conseil de p. 115 Closing speech: Mr Philippe Boillat, Director General of l’Europe … Human Rights, Council of Europe … p. 113 Closing speech: Mr Jesús Caldera Sánchez-Capitán, Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Spain … p. 117 PARTICIPANTS List of participants/Liste des participant(e)s … p. 119 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. 133 TFV) et adopté par le Comité des Ministres le 21 juin 2006 … p. 139 « Stop à la violence domestique faite aux femmes » : Conférence de lancement, Madrid, 27 novembre 2006 5 Introduction blank Page The Launching Conference of the experts in the field of preventing and Council of Council of Europe Campaign to combating violence against women Combat Violence against Women, in- developed the Blueprint for the Cam- Europe cluding Domestic Violence, was held paign, which was subsequently ap- on 27 November 2006 in the Spanish proved by the Committee of Ministers Campaign Senate in Madrid. All Council of of the Council of Europe on 21 June Europe member states, except Arme- 2006. This document serves as a to Combat nia, Belgium, Bosnia and Herze- roadmap for implementation of the govina, Liechtenstein, Poland and Campaign and contains a definition of Violence against Switzerland were represented. The violence against women, as well as following states attended as observ- Campaign aims, objectives, messages Women, ers: Canada, Holy See and Mexico. and activities to implement the Cam- including In all, over 400 participants at- paign. tended the conference, including The Campaign consists of three di- Domestic deputy prime ministers, ministers, mensions: intergovernmental, parlia- deputy ministers, state secretaries and mentary and local and regional. It is Violence high-level civil servants, parliamen- carried out by the Council of Europe tarians and representatives of local as well as its member states, in part- and regional authorities dealing with nership with intergovernmental or- gender equality matters as well as rep- ganisations and NGOs involved in the resentatives of international intergov- protection of women against violence. ernmental and non-governmental or- ganisations and Council of Europe Throughout the duration