Mid-term Horizontal Review of GREVIO baseline evaluation reports (2022)

To provide an overview of promising practices in addressing violence against women 

GREVIO, the Group of Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, is an independent human rights monitoring body mandated to monitor the implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention) by the Parties.

The Istanbul Convention is the most far-reaching international treaty to tackle violence against women and domestic violence. Its comprehensive set of provisions spans far-ranging preventive and protective measures as well as a number of obligations to ensure an adequate criminal justice response to such serious violations of human rights.

This Mid-term Horizontal Review has been conceived to serve as an information tool on violence against women in Europe. For each article of the Istanbul Convention, it provides a panoramic view of the promising practices and the challenges that GREVIO has identified in implementing this treaty across the 17 states parties that have been evaluated as at December 2020.