Direct Link to Full 38-Page EDVAW 2022 Report: 1680a933ae (coe.int)
The Platform of Independent Expert Mechanisms on Discrimination and Violence against Women (EDVAW Platform) was launched at the initiative of the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences in March 2018. It gathers seven United Nations and regional independent expert mechanisms on violence against women and women’s rights operating at the international and regional levels.1 The EDVAW Platform aims to strengthen institutional co-operation between the mechanisms with a view to undertaking joint action to harmonise and improve the implementation of the existing international legal and policy frameworks on violence against women.
The EDVAW Platform is composed of the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, as well as representatives from the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the UN Working Group on discrimination against women and girls, Council of Europe Expert Group on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (GREVIO), the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights’ Rapporteur on the Rights of Women, the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women in Africa and the Committee of Experts of the Follow-up Mechanism to the Belém do Pará Convention (MESECVI). All forms of violence against women, including its digital dimension must be understood within the framework of gender-based discrimination. Indeed, such violence against women is not an isolated issue, but the most brutal manifestation of discrimination against women and girls, and it cannot be solved without first addressing the root causes of violence, namely, gender-based discrimination founded on stereotyped notions of women and girls and on ideas of women’s and girl’s inferiority with respect to men and boys. Thus, states parties are obliged, based on art. 5 of CEDAW and applicable regional instruments, to combat such forms of discrimination in order to eliminate the causes that facilitate and endorse the digital dimension of violence against women. The digital dimension of violence against women can include any act of gender-based violence.
Source: WUNRN – 24.02.2023
