Number of cases of violence against women increasing, warns Council of Europe
[Strasbourg, 30 November 2012] “Statistics indicate an increase in the number of cases of violence against women and domestic violence,” the members of the Standing Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) warned at a meeting in Andorra today.
In a unanimously-adopted declaration, they called on member states to continue allocating adequate funding to shelters and assistance programmes for victims of violence, strengthen preventive measures and to sign and (...)
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