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Violence Against Women on the Implementation of the Istanbul Expertise Working Paper Documentation Report Violence against Women On the implementation of the Istanbul Convention in Denmark, Finland & Austria Katrin Lange, Sarah Molter, Marie Wittenius July 2020 On the implementation of the Istanbul Convention in Denmark, Finland & Austria Contents Abstract...................................................................................................................................... 1 1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 3 1.1 Denmark ....................................................................................................................... 4 1.2 Finland .......................................................................................................................... 6 1.3 Austria ........................................................................................................................... 7 2 Specialist support services (Article 22) ............................................................................ 9 2.1 Denmark ..................................................................................................................... 11 2.2 Finland ........................................................................................................................ 22 2.3 Austria ......................................................................................................................... 33 3 Shelters (Article 23) .......................................................................................................... 46 3.1 Denmark ..................................................................................................................... 47 3.2 Finland ........................................................................................................................ 55 3.3 Austria ......................................................................................................................... 60 4 Support for victims of sexual violence (Article 25) ........................................................ 66 4.1 Denmark ..................................................................................................................... 67 4.2 Finland ........................................................................................................................ 70 4.3 Austria ......................................................................................................................... 74 5 Conclusion ........................................................................................................................ 83 5.1 Specialist support services (Article 22) ........................................................................ 83 5.2 Shelters (Article 23) ..................................................................................................... 86 5.3 Support for victims of sexual violence (Article 25) ....................................................... 88 6 References ........................................................................................................................ 92 Annex ....................................................................................................................................... 99 I. Link list ........................................................................................................................ 99 II. Lists of Translations .................................................................................................. 102 III. Finland: List of FMS member organisations and their areas of activity ...................... 106 IV. Finland: Overview table of shelters ............................................................................ 109 Current Publications ............................................................................................................. 113 Publishing Information ......................................................................................................... 114 On the implementation of the Istanbul Convention in Denmark, Finland & Austria List of figures Figure 1: Structure of the working paper ...................................................................................... 4 List of tables Table 1: Overview of specialist support services (Article 22) ..................................................... 11 Table 2: Overview of shelters (Article 23) .................................................................................. 47 Table 3: Shelters in Finland broken down by region: utilisation rate, people seeking protection, rejection rate ............................................................................................................................. 58 Table 4: Shelters in southern Finland: utilisation rate, people seeking protection, rejection rate 58 Table 5: Overview of support for victims of sexual violence (Article 25) ..................................... 67 On the implementation of the Istanbul Convention in Denmark, Finland & Austria Abstract The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention) is a treaty of international law that entered into force on 1 August 2014. The Convention contains binding regulations on the protection of women against all forms of violence. The Istanbul Convention obliges the States Parties to provide a needs-based, comprehensive, well-equipped and financially guaranteed support system. The specialist support services as specified in Article 22 represent a central building block of this help system. In Articles 23 and 25, obligations related to shelters and support for victims of sexual violence are specified. In this working paper, the Observatory examines the implementation of the Istanbul Convention to protect and support women affected by violence in a comparison between Denmark, Finland and Austria. The main findings are: ● The findings reveal that in all three states, there is, at fundamental level, a nuanced, specialised and high-quality support system in place for women affected by various forms of violence: In implementing their obligations in line with Articles 22, 23 and 25 of the Istanbul Convention, Denmark, Finland and Austria opt for non-governmental, specialist support services. These are financed and in part also regulated by public administration at national, regional and even municipal level. ● In comparison to the other forms of violence against women, the one that is covered best by the specialist support services (Article 22) in all three states is domestic violence. In both Finland and Austria, strongly institutionalised structures of support services for victims of domestic violence are in place throughout the country. By contrast, the services in Denmark are less institutionalised and are mostly provided in cooperation with civil-society organisations. ● The strong focus of anti-violence policies on domestic violence in Denmark, Finland and Austria is at the expense of support services for other forms of violence in terms of their number, scope and regional distribution. Specialist support services for women affected by stalking, violence in the name of so-called “honour”, forced marriage and genital mutilation are not in place across the board and are much fewer in number compared to domestic violence. They are also mostly concentrated in only one or two larger cities in each country; rural areas are underprovided, or not provided at all, with relevant services. ● The discrepancies in number, extent, regional distribution, funding and staffing of the specialist support services can ultimately lead to unequal treatment of victims of different forms of violence. Moreover, these forms of violence frequently affect groups with special needs that are already exposed to a greater risk of discrimination, for example refugee or asylum-seeking women, migrant women or now also women and girls in the second generation of migrants. ● In Finland, the specialist support services are also available to men as victims of violence. In Denmark and Austria this is the case only to a limited extent. However, GREVIO is strongly critical of this gender-neutral stance. 1 On the implementation of the Istanbul Convention in Denmark, Finland & Austria ● In all three states, there is a fundamental lack of valid data on the number of women at risk and/or affected by stalking, violence in the name of so-called “honour” and forced marriage as well as genital mutilation. It follows, therefore, that there are no needs analyses that might, as a first step, enable an assessment of the extent to which the number, scope and activities of the specialist support services should be expanded. ● Shelters (Article 23) are the central contact points for acute emergency situations, especially for domestic violence in all three states. In Finland, all shelters have been coordinated, financed and monitored by the state since 2015. Previously, responsibility for the provision of services was with local authorities, as is still the case in Denmark and Austria, where shelters are mainly run by civil-society organisations. Most shelters in these three states are networked within umbrella organisations. ● While shelters in Austria, in the form of women’s shelters, are aimed exclusively at women and their children, they are mostly accessible to both women and men in Denmark and Finland. Children of women seeking protection can be housed
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