Working to end violence against women is a fraught endeavour. Not least because gaining international consensus and cooperation on issues around gender equality can be tense.
The scale of problem, however, is clear. The European Network for the Work with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence notes that one in three women globally has experienced either physical or sexual violence. In the EU, more than one in five women has experienced physical and/or sexual violence from a partner, with one in ten experiencing such violence as a child.
The Council of Europe launched its convention on preventing and combating violence against women in 2011. In the ten years since, commitment from certain signatories to the Istanbul convention (so named for the location of that initial committee meeting) has begun to waver.
