COUNCIL OF EUROPE CONVENTION ON PREVENTING AND COMBATING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE- IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONVENTION PROVISIONS BY THE ROMANIA
COUNCIL OF EUROPE CONVENTION ON PREVENTING AND COMBATING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE- IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONVENTION PROVISIONS BY THE ROMANIA

Summary/Abstract: Violence agains women and girls is a form of human rights violation that is widespread in every part of the globe and takes many forms. Ten years after the opening of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence for signing, it is stated that this is a living instrument, an instrument that has been promoted at regional and international level, with sustained steps being taken to put it into practice by party States. Opened for signature on 11 May 2011, the Convention entered into force on 1 August 2014 in accordance with the provisions of Article 75 (3), which established that its effects would occur “on the first day of the month following the expiration of a period of three months after the date on which 10 signatories, including at least eight member States of the Council of Europe, have expressed their consent to be bound by the Convention."Romania ratified the Istanbul Convention shortly after its entry into force. Thus, by Law no. 30 of March 17, 2016, Romania expressed its consent to become a party, the document entering into force for the Romanian state on September 1, 2016. Being aware of the obligations assumed by the convention and of the need to adapt the provisions of the domestic law to their requirements, Romania has made, from the moment of ratification until now, significant progress.

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