{"id":25222,"date":"2015-11-26T11:13:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T11:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am?p=25222"},"modified":"2015-11-26T12:22:02","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T12:22:02","slug":"%d5%a5%d5%be%d6%80%d5%b8%d5%ba%d5%a1%d5%b5%d5%ab-%d5%ad%d5%b8%d6%80%d5%b0%d5%b8%d6%82%d6%80%d5%a4%d5%a8-%d5%af%d5%b8%d5%b9-%d5%a7-%d5%a1%d5%b6%d5%b8%d6%82%d5%b4-%d5%b0%d5%a1%d5%b5%d5%a1%d5%bd%d5%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/%d5%a5%d5%be%d6%80%d5%b8%d5%ba%d5%a1%d5%b5%d5%ab-%d5%ad%d5%b8%d6%80%d5%b0%d5%b8%d6%82%d6%80%d5%a4%d5%a8-%d5%af%d5%b8%d5%b9-%d5%a7-%d5%a1%d5%b6%d5%b8%d6%82%d5%b4-%d5%b0%d5%a1%d5%b5%d5%a1%d5%bd%d5%bf\/","title":{"rendered":"Violence against women: Europe must become a zone of zero tolerance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.womennet.amwp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Istanbul-Conv-EN.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>On\u00a0the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, 25 November 2015, Thorbj\u00f8rn Jagland,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coe.int\/web\/secretary-general\/home\">Secretary General\u00a0<\/a>of the Council of Europe issued the following statement:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cViolence against women and girls remains one of the most serious \u2013 and sadly most tolerated \u2013 human-rights violations worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No magic bullet exists to solve this problem, but I call on all 47 of our member states to adopt our award-winning\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coe.int\/en\/web\/conventions\/full-list\/-\/conventions\/treaty\/210\">Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This international legal treaty remains the first and only one to criminalise all forms of violence against women \u2013 physical, sexual and psychological. It obliges states that have fully adopted it to\u00a0protect victims and prosecute perpetrators.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since last year, we have set up an independent expert group \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coe.int\/en\/web\/istanbul-convention\/grevio\">GREVIO\u00a0<\/a>\u2013 to monitor implementation of our convention by states that are parties to it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With 20 signatures and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coe.int\/en\/web\/conventions\/full-list\/-\/conventions\/treaty\/210\/signatures\">19 ratifications so far<\/a>,\u00a0I call on those states that have neither signed nor ratified this treaty to do so without delay:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Moldova and the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is time to join your neighbours, so that Europe has a real, zero-tolerance response to violence against women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Source : <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coe.int\/en\/web\/portal\/-\/europe-must-become-a-zone-of-zero-tolerance-for-violence-against-women?redirect=http:\/\/www.coe.int\/en\/web\/portal\/home?p_p_id=101_INSTANCE_DibKFqnpE518&amp;p_p_lifecycle=0&amp;p_p_state=normal&amp;p_p_mode=view&amp;p_p_col_id=column-1&amp;p_p\">Council of Europe<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"newstxt\">On\u00a0the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, 25 November 2015, Thorbj\u00f8rn Jagland,\u00a0Secretary General\u00a0of the Council of Europe issued the following statement: &nbsp; \u201cViolence against women [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,95,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-93","category-95","category-129"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}