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Call for participants: supporting civil society organisations in raising awareness on the Istanbul Convention
The Council of Europe in co-operation with the Women Against Violence Europe Network (WAVE) and UN Women are organising an on-line event with the participation of civil society organisations from all over Europe.
The main aims of the event are to:
- promote and answer questions related to a new methodology providing advocacy resources and tools to support civil society organisations in promoting the values, aims and provisions of the Council of Europe the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, known as the Istanbul Convention;
- encourage broad participation in the Council of Europe call for proposals from non-governmental organisations working in Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania or the Slovak Republic
The event will take place on 14 September 2022, at 09:30-12:00 CET.
The meeting will be hosted by the BlueJeans videoconferencing platform and the working language will be English.
Participants are invited to register on this link.The deadline for registrations is 12 September 2022, and the connection link will be made available after this deadline.
For more information, read the programme of the event.
Debate on the “Istanbul Convention – challenges in its implementation”
On the occasion of the 70thanniversary of the Council of Europe it was organised a debate on the Istanbul Convention – Challenges in its implementation , moderated by Anne Negre, UWE President and Vice-President in Charge of Equality, Conference INGOs, Council of Europe, who had an intervention on the stereotypes on artificial intelligence and a presentation of the recommendation on sexism.
Following this event, the Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe, the spearhead of human rights, is worried about the future of fundamental rights of women and girls in Europe.
The European Convention on Human Rights, the European Social Charter and the Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, which is based on the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and other texts, should have allowed de facto and de jure equality between women and men. However, despite the efforts of the Council of Europe, most recently with the Strategy for Equality between Women and Men (2018-2023) and Recommendation CM/Rec(2019)1 to prevent and combat sexism, this objective has not been achieved by any member State while even severe regression appears, in some States, in family policies, sexual and reproductive rights.
Faced with contemporary challenges such as climate change, artificial intelligence, the persistence of stereotypes in all aspects of private or public life, and more, proposals to preserve the rights of women and girls are not sufficiently taken into account. The Conference of INGOs urges Member States to faithfully apply the texts they generally adopt unanimously within the Council of Europe. The credibility of the women and men who govern these States depends on effective action to respect these commitments.
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