The Directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence is an EU Directive proposal by the

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tabled on 8 March 2022. The

proposed an EU-wide legislation in this area following a request to act by the

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. In September 2021,

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called on the European Commission to legislate to prevent violence against women and support the victims. The objective of the initiative was to make violence against women and domestic violence a crime under EU law, along with already criminalized conduct such as cybercrime, sexual exploitation and money laundering for example. Under the proposal by the European Commission gender-based violence would be indeed considered as a crime under Article 83 of the

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. The initiative was called for by the

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in order to translate into EU legislation the standards of the

Istanbul Convention The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence, better known as the Istanbul Convention, is a human rights treaty of the Council of Europe against violence against women and domestic v ...

on gender-based violence.

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Text of the directive proposal
European Union directives Draft European Union laws Violence against women Gender-related violence Crimes against women