European law and protection of women against violence: history and promotion of the Istanbul Convention

Abstract

Among gender issues, the issue of protecting women from all types and forms of violence, including domestic (family) violence, occupies a special place. At the international legal level, the most comprehensive definition of – domestic violence‖ which includes not only physical violence, but also psychological, moral, economic coercion, the creation of various discriminatory conditions, as well as pressure, given the fact that the subject is female is enshrined in the fundamental documents, International law is actively developing tools aimed at comprehensively protecting women from all forms of discrimination and violence. However, there are many obstacles to the successful implementation of such norms in the national legislation of states. In this regard, the purpose of this article is to highlight the worldwide distribution of the most important international treaty in this area – the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence 2011 (Istanbul Convention), as well as the unfinished process of ratification of this convention in Ukraine