Istanbul Convention: An introduction

Istanbul Convention is important to be understood while it contains quite a lot reading and work to do to successfully implement it. The important part of the Istanbul Convention which I want to clarify and introduce is its work with "data collection".

 Article 1 of the Istanbul Convention refers to the need to “design a comprehensive

framework” and the need to “eff ectively co-operate in order to adopt

an integrated approach”. Co-ordination of data collection is part of the duties

of offi cial bodies to be established as specifi ed in Article 10. Co-operation

between these offi cial bodies can assist these developments. Further, the parties

to the convention are to provide the independent expert body responsible

for monitoring the implementation of the Istanbul Convention (the Group of

Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence,

GREVIO1 ) with the data and other information collected, to assist their work.

The data collected needs to be relevant and co-ordinated. This is best achieved

when the categories in which data is collected are the same as the categories

used by the agencies which are working to protect victims and prevent the

violence. The categories used in the measurement framework within which data

is collected should correspond to the categories in the conceptual framework

within which interventions by public agencies are developed. This means that

administrative and survey data should use the same defi nitions and the same

units of measurement. This is not always current practice, since data collection

has developed for specifi c purposes, rather than as part of an integrated

system designed to prevent violence against women and domestic violence.

For example, agencies such as the police collect data relevant for the police,

while academics conduct surveys using categories that are relevant for their

theories. Co-operation within the framework of the Istanbul Convention offers

the opportunity to collect data that is relevant to the wider purpose of ending

violence against women in all its forms, not only the more specifi c purposes

of individual agencies. The defi nitions are provided by the convention itself,

as detailed above.

ENSURING DATA COLLECTION AND RESEARCH ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: ARTICLE 11 OF THE ISTANBUL CONVENTION : CoE Publications

Comprehensive Framework for providing an epistemic base for the legal experts and also civil servants working at the NGOs as well as the bureaucracy, in the Istanbul Convention, is the purpose of the data collection practice. One important point is that the violence cases against women are registered as data at the Police and Judiciary as well however these are not usually made public, because of the individual rights primarily. Istanbul Convention proposes here that the data collected has to be segregated from those those parts belonging to the individuals: and having a, broadly, social and other phenomenal related knowledge to contribute the civil initiatives within their work.

The training for the collection of data through questionnaires, primarily: critical phenomenons to be included in the questionnaire in violence abuse cases, are to be given by the GREVIO proposed by the Istanbul Convention to those of whom working at the NGOs focusing on these issues. And a more pervasive organization for the combatting of the violence against women and girls will be in effect by the help of these NGOs. And also a cooperation between the police forces or the judiciary or other state bodies and those NGOs is another purpose of the Istanbul Convention, as well as the data published is expected to be useful for the academics on sociology or other disciplines specifically working on women related subjects.

Comprehensive Framework here is important for it is something to be improved within a certain process: violence against women and girls is tremendously important subject as well as its handling by evaluating the cases one by one and trying to produce general assumptions for the benefit of women and girls and society is a difficult method to be managed.

General assumptions here is important for there is another purpose of the Istanbul Convention that by the help of GREVIO these frameworks are to be compared with eachother between different NGOs, cities, and also countries.

Violence as an act of harm, torture as well as a result of the incapability to maintain a civil interaction by men towards women as such interpretations is to be traced and recognized through this work (and not being alone but in cooperation with others) and handling of information philosophically(for the purpose of its implementation into the Law) as well as registering by official means the violence against women and girls cases will serve an important part for the legal protection of women and girls against violence, these can be also said for the important facets of the Istanbul Convention.