This First General Report on the activities of the Group of Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (GREVIO) covers the period from September 2015 to May 2019 and provides a comprehensive summary of the results of GREVIO’s first eight reports as well as the findings emerging from final draft reports adopted as of May 2019.
The dynamics that led to the creation of GREVIO and the organisational environment it functioned in during this period have determined to a large extent this body’s role in ensuring the implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, also known as the Istanbul Convention (the Convention).
FOREWORD BY THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF GREVIO
The Convention
GREVIO and the evaluation process
Results and impact
PREFACE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PROCEDURAL AND ORGANISATIONAL FRAMEWORK OF GREVIO’S ACTIVITIES
Membership
Internal Rules of Procedure
Human and financial resources
GREVIO’S WORKING METHODS
Baseline evaluation procedure
Questionnaire
Evaluation visits
Other sources of information
Civil society’s contribution to the evaluation procedure
Reservations
FOCUS SECTION: FIRST TRENDS AND CHALLENGES EMERGING FROM COUNTRY MONITORING
Shortcomings and challenges in the implementation of the provisions of the convention
Improvements and valuable practices identified in the course of the baseline evaluation procedure
Challenges in promoting and securing support for the Istanbul Convention in the context of the backlash against women’s rights
RELATION WITH THE COMMITTEE OF THE PARTIES CO-OPERATION WITH OTHER COUNCIL OF EUROPE BODIES AND INSTITUTIONS
Committee of Ministers
Parliamentary Assembly
Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights
Gender Equality Commission
European Court of Human Rights
CO-OPERATION WITH CIVIL SOCIETY AND NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS ESTABLISHMENT OF WORKING RELATIONS WITH OTHER INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS
United Nations
Organization of American States
World Bank
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
European Union
COMMUNICATION
Publications
Other communication
CONCLUDING REMARKS APPENDIX 1 – LIST OF GREVIO’S ACTIVITIES BETWEEN JUNE 2015 AND MAY 2019
APPENDIX 2 – TIMELINE OF GREVIO’S EVALUATION PROCEDURE (NOVEMBER 2016 – MAY 2019)
APPENDIX 3 - SIGNATURES AND RATIFICATIONS OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE CONVENTION ON PREVENTING AND COMBATING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
APPENDIX 4 – LIST OF GREVIO MEMBERS (FROM JUNE 2015 TO MAY 2019)
APPENDIX 5: GREVIO’S SECRETARIAT (FROM JUNE 2015 TO MAY 2019)
APPENDIX 6 – GREVIO’S FIRST (BASELINE) EVALUATION PROCEDURE
