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Campaign to
combat violence against women: the Assembly weighs
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| [28/06/2006] The Assembly gave its
backing today to the Council of Europe's Campaign to
combat violence against women, to be launched on 24
November 2006, by pledging a series of initiatives at
parliamentary level. The 46 national parliaments were
invited to symbolically join forces at midday on 24
November to condemn domestic violence against women and
call for its eradication to be made a political priority
at the highest level. The parliamentarians urged
countries to adopt legislative measures, making marital
rape a criminal offence, for example, and allowing the
banning of a violent husband from the marital home.
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 Speech
by Mrs Erturk (video) |
| Resolution
1512 (2006) |
| Recommendation
1759 (2006) |
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