Governments across Eastern Europe and Central Asia are increasingly promoting ‘traditional values’ and equating the protection of gender equality and women’s rights with...
Tag - Domestic Violence
The long-overdue criminalisation of domestic violence in 2017 was a major step in the right direction for Ukraine. Progress since then however has been limited. Ukraine...
Ten years after of the landmark declaration of the Council of Europe’s Istanbul Convention on women’s rights, a significant number of countries in Central and...
Turkey has withdrawn from the Istanbul Convention, which seeks to prevent violence against women, including domestic violence, and bring an end to legal impunity for...
Almost one in three women worldwide experience physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner or sexual violence by someone else in their lifetime. In a majority...
Following on from a bakery dedicated to employing mentally disabled people, the Belarusian capital Minsk is now set to be the home of another unique social enterprise, a...
The Bulgarian NGO, ZaTeb (For You), has launched the first app in emerging Europe dedicated to helping women stand up against domestic violence. The app connects all...
Romania should improve the implementation of laws and ensure funding to effectively protect the rights of persons with disabilities and protect women from violence, a...
Lithuania has launched a major campaign designed to raise awareness about domestic violence. Called, Palaikyk (Support), the campaign highlights the fact that in 2017...
Human rights groups in Bulgaria have blasted a decision by the country’s Constitutional Court declaring an international convention protecting women from domestic...