Europe’s Far Right Is an Obstacle to Curbing Violence Against Women

Just six months after the European Union is finally passed His first Directive on gender -based violence, has a major new research discovered a worrying lack of progress in solving problems. Overall, one of three women across the block experienced some form of gender -based violence, while more than half of the Member States recorded an increase in incidents over the past decade, according to a joint study of the Fundamental Rights Agency, the European Institute for Gender Equality and Eurostat.

EU’s efforts to suppress violence against women has long been led by the Council of Europe, a continent leading Human Rights Organization, which has tried establish Harmonized legal standards through the Istanbul Convention, a 2011 human rights contract that aimed to fight gender and domestic violence. Although the Convention came into force ten years ago, she was persistent Unclaimed, especially among Eastern European countries.

Long -Expected EU 2024 Directive about the fight against violence against women And domestic violence should have been more ambitious to the extent than the Istanbul Convention, with the aim of reconciling not only legislation, but also practically initiatives Around “Protection and Support for Victims, Prevention and Early Intervention.” For many critics, however, a new directive is a retrograde step, the most obvious because it is completely excludes A crime of rape. After failing to find a consensus across the block on the definition of sexual consent, France and Germany simply veto Including the definition of rape in accordance with the standards of the Istanbul Convention. As Marta dell’aquila from the Center for European Policy Studies wroteThe EU initiative “promised to do something historically for women and girls rights,” but “falls miserable less than the protection of women than rape.”