RECONSIDERING GENDER - BASED VIOLENCE AND OTHER FORMS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN COMPARATIVE RESEARCH/ANALYSIS IN THE LIGHT OF THE ISTANBUL CONVENTION

Violence against women has become a sensitive topic only in the last few years. The national policies awareness-raising and the implementation of provisions in this direction have been lacking for long and the existing norms were featured by uncertainty and diversity. The enactment of the Istanbul Convention, with its innovations and its capability to tackle the issue in the light of ongoing globalization, is one of the most successful tools in this regard. This book presents with a variety of perspectives a comparative analysis among the different legal and cultural realities, highlighting the normative distances and the peculiarity of such a wide phenomenon anticipating also some of the issues still to be implemented by the legislatives themselves.