Compilation of recommendations of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in the field of gender equality

EUROPE: GENDER EQUALITY

2021

COUNCIL OF EUROPE, Make Gender Equality in Law a Reality in Fact, Strasbourg 2021.

From the 1980s onwards, the Council of Europe and its Steering Committee for Equality between Women and Men (CDEG), the predecessor of the GEC (which replaced it in 2012), had the task of putting forward European standards, which enabled a new approach on gender equality and shaped its development in Europe over the past decades. Since 2014, the Council of Europe's work on gender equality has been structured around a multi-annual Gender Equality Strategy. The recommendations provide guidance and inspiration for future action to be carried out so that gender equality becomes an effective reality at the national and international level, both as an integral part of human rights, and as a fundamental criterion of democracy. This compilation, after a first section dedicated to the general recommendations, is structured around various topics which were tackled by the Council, for example, in a way to prevent and combat, gender stereotypes and sexism or violence against women and domestic violence, promote the participation of women in political and public decision making.
 
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