Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence - EU accession: judicial cooperation in criminal matters, asylum and non-refoulement

Reference A9-0170/2023Committee FEMM, LIBEGender equality Migration

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How the groups voted

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The Left37

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S&D144

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Greens/EFA72

650

The European Parliament adopted by 464 votes to 81, with 45 abstentions, a legislative resolution on the draft Council decision on the conclusion, on behalf of the European Union, of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence with regard to matters related to judicial cooperation in criminal matters, asylum and non-refoulement.The European Parliament gave its consent to the conclusion of the Convention.The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women (‘Istanbul Convention’), which came into force in 2014, is the first legally binding international instrument on preventing and combating violence against women and girls at international level…