• EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
  • RÉSUMÉ
  • ZUSAMMENFASSUNG
  • 1 INTRODUCTION: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
  • 1.1 The Istanbul Convention as a Human Rights Treaty
  • 1.2 A Gender-Based Convention
  • 1.3 The Istanbul Convention as a Criminal Law Treaty
  • 1.4 Conclusion
  • 2 THE ISTANBUL CONVENTION AND EU LAW
  • 2.1 EU competence to accede to the Istanbul Convention
  • 2.1.1 EU competence in the area of criminal law
  • 2.1.2 EU accession to the UN CRPD
  • 2.2 EU fundamental rights and violence against women
  • 2.2.1 EU fundamental rights
  • 2.2.2 EU law on promoting equality between men and women and on sex discrimination
  • 2.2.3 Violence against women as a matter of EU policy
  • 2.3 The Istanbul Convention chapter by chapter in comparison with EU law
  • 2.3.1 The Preamble to the Istanbul Convention
  • 2.3.2 Chapter I: Purposes, definitions, equality and non-discrimination, general obligations (Articles 1-6)
  • 2.3.3 Chapter II: Integrated policies and data collection (Articles 7-11)
  • 2.3.4 Chapter III: Prevention (Articles 12-17)
  • 2.3.5 Chapter IV: Protection and Support (Articles 18-28)
  • 2.3.6 Chapter V: Substantive law (Articles 29-48)
  • 2.3.7 Chapter VI: Investigation, prosecution, procedural law and protective measures
  • 2.3.8 Chapter VII: Migration and asylum (Articles 59-61)
  • 2.3.9 Chapter VIII: International cooperation (Articles 62-65)
  • 2.3.10 Chapter IX: Monitoring mechanism
  • 2.3.11 Chapter X: Relationship with other international instruments (Article 71)
  • 2.3.12
  • Chapter XI: Amendments to the Convention (Article 72)
  • 2.3.13 Chapter XII: Final Clauses (Articles 73-81)
  • 2.4 Conclusions: added value of accession
  • 3 COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF NATIONAL LAW
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Variations in policies on gender-based violence among EU Member States
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