Violence against women

Violence against women

Philosophical, cultural, religious, political and economic backgrounds

Project period August-December 2024

Project concept

Analysing the philosophical, cultural, religious, political and/or economic backgrounds for serious human rights violations committed against women and girls through violence in selected countries in Europe (A, BG, CZ, ESP, HU, LTU, PL, SLO, UK), the Middle East (Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Yemen) and the Far East (overview and specifically Afghanistan, India, Pakistan) and the Sahel region of Africa (including Nigeria).

In particular, violations of the following human rights are being investigated:

• Right to life
• Prohibition of torture and inhuman treatment
• Prohibition of slavery, slavery-like conditions of dependency, servitude, forced and compulsory labour and human trafficking
• Right to privacy and individual self-determination

Mainly due to

• Abuse and corporal punishment
• Rape, sexual abuse, paedophilia and forced prostitution
• Forced marriage and child marriage
• Forced abortion
• Female genital mutilation (FGM)

Project goals

Description of the national laws of the selected countries for the prevention and prosecution of violent offences and their (non-)implementation in practice

Documentation and analysis of the relevant regional and international conventions, resolutions, studies and programmes with regard to implementation and effectiveness (in particular CEDAW, UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Istanbul Convention on Violence against Women, European Convention on Human Rights, EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Cairo Declaration of Human Rights)

Development of reform proposals and recommendations