Turkey s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention: A retrogressive step back in the protection of women s human rights enshrined in the CEDAW Convention - Turkey
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Transatlantic Take
April 30, 2021
The Council of Europe’s Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence is the first legally binding instrument to provide a comprehensive framework to combat gender-based violence. It was opened for signature in Istanbul in 2011, hence it being known as the Istanbul Convention. Turkey played a leading role in its inception, and it was the first state to sign and ratify it. However, it has now achieved another milestone on March 20 as the first state to officially withdraw from the convention. Given the country’s symbolic status, growing campaigns of disinformation about the convention in parts of Europe, and the general absence of international consequences for its decision, the impact Turkey’s withdrawal could have on the convention as well as on the Europe-wide protection of women should not be underestimated.
GRETA questionnaire for civil society on technology facilitated trafficking 26 Apr 2021
GRETA will carry out a study on the problems faced by States Parties to the CoE Anti-Trafficking Convention in relation to the detection, investigation and prosecution of online and technology-facilitated human trafficking, international co-operation in this respect, and existing legislative and operational tools and good practices to help prevent and combat ICT-enabled trafficking in human beings. A questionnaire has been prepared for CSOs, which are asked to contribute and send their responses to the GRETA Secretariat trafficking@coe.int by 19 May 2021.
The Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA), which monitors the implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (“the Convention”), has noted that State Parties to the Convention have reported an increased use of information and communication technolog