International Law and Violence Against Women

Johanna Niemi, Professor of Procedural Law, University of Turku, FinlandLourdes Peroni, Human Rights Lecturer, Sheffield Hallam University, UKVladislava 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;