11th meeting of the Committee of the Parties
The 11th meeting of the Committee of the Parties to the Istanbul Convention was held in Strasbourg in hybrid format on December 7, 2021.
During the meeting, the Committee adopted recommendations on the implementation of the Istanbul Convention for three States Parties: Poland, San Marino and Slovenia.
It also adopted its first set of conclusions concerning Albania, Austria, Denmark and Monaco following its process of overseeing the implementation of these recommendations at the end of the three-year reference period. Earlier this year, at its 10th meeting, the Committee agreed on a framework to oversee the implementation of recommendations to States parties to promote the implementation of the convention. Since then, the first group of four states have reported to the Committee to adopt its findings, also on the basis of additional information submitted by civil society and a national human rights institution.
The Committee elected Ms Maria Rún Bjarnadóttir as the last member to join the Council of Europe Group of Experts on Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (GREVIO). The Committee also elected its new bureau, composed of Marie Fontanel, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of France elected President, Domenik Wanger, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of Liechtenstein, elected First Vice-President and Andrej Slapničar, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary , permanent representative of Slovenia, as second vice-chairman.
Finally, the Committee of the Parties took note of a new study assess the relevance of the Istanbul Convention and the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime (Budapest Convention) in combating online and technology-facilitated violence against women that was presented during of the meeting, allowing a thematic debate on the extent to which these two international treaties can complement each other in a dynamic way.