The LIBE and FEMM committees will hold a joint hearing on the EU accession to the Istanbul Convention on combating violence against women.
Key speakers will include Sahiba Gafarova, General rapporteur on violence of the PACE; Elisabeth Moiron-Braud, Interministerial Mission on the protection of Women from violence; Gun Heimer, Swedish Expert from the NCK; Maria Miguel Sierra, Director of La Voix des femmes (EWL); Anna Maria Corazza Bildt and Christine Revault D'allonnes Bonnefoy, EP rapporteurs on the file.
- Draft programme (PDF - 1 MB)
- Video of the hearing
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Background documents
- Council decision on the conclusion, by the European Union, of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (PDF - 167 KB)
- Annex to the Council decision on the conclusion, by the European Union, of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (PDF - 354 KB)
- European Commission report on Legal implications of EU accession to the Istanbul Convention (PDF - 842 KB)
- Istanbul Convention: combatting violence against women (PDF - 445 KB)
- Briefing EPRS: Violence against women in the EU - State of play (PDF - 460 KB)
- Malta Joint Statement - European institutions’call for action (PDF - 99 KB)