International Law and Violence Against Women

Johanna Niemi, Professor of Procedural Law, University of Turku, Finland Lourdes Peroni, Human Rights Lecturer, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Vladislava Stoyanova, Associate Professor, Lund University, Sweden

Introduction: The Istanbul Convention as a Response to Violence against Women in Europe, Johanna Niemi, Lourdes Peroni and Vladislava Stoyanova;



Part I: Context and Role;



1 - The Istanbul Convention in the Context of Feminist Claims;



2 - Unleashing the Gender Equality Potential of the Istanbul Convention;



3 - The Istanbul Convention as an Interpretative Tool at the European and National Levels;



Part II: Concepts;



4 - The Concepts of Gender and Violence in the Istanbul Convention;



5 - Due Diligence versus Positive Obligations: Critical Reflections on the Council of Europe Convention on Violence against Women;



Part III: Criminal Law Responses;



6 - The Istanbul Convention on Sexual Offences: A Duty to Reform the Wording of National Law or the Way We Think?;



7 - Exploring Intersectionality: Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in the Istanbul Convention;



8 - Forced Sterilisation in the Istanbul Convention: Remedies, Intersectional Discrimination and Cis-Exclusiveness;



Part IV: Victim Services;



9 - The Right to Adequate Housing of Battered Women: The Added Value of the Istanbul Convention?;



10 - Support to Battered Women in Sweden: Non-profits and Public Authorities Collaborating, Counteracting and Competing;



Part V: Migration and Asylum;



11 - Protection beyond Victimization: The Significance of the Istanbul Convention for Migrant Women;



12 - Gender-Based Violence against Women and International Protection Needs: The Contribution of the Istanbul Convention;



Part VI: National Responses to the Convention;



13 - The Istanbul Convention in Poland: Between the “War on Gender” and Legal Reform;



14 - Reservations and Declarations under the Istanbul Convention;