One person dies every two weeks from domestic abuse in Switzerland; most often,it’s a woman. The Swiss authorities must conclude more to implement the Istanbul Convention to combat this scourge, say campaigners. Since final year, and the #MeToo and #BalanceTonPorc movements have put the spotlight on the problems of sexual abuse and harassment. Violence against women is not a novel phenomenon,but it is a widespread and persistent human rights violation. Non-governmental groups status a great deal of hope in the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (better known as the Istanbul Convention), which entered into force in Switzerland final April. Ahead of the United Nations-supported International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on November 25, and swissinfo.ch talked to Simone Eggler of Terre des Femmes approximately the scale of the problem in Switzerland and possible solutions. Eggler belongs to a novel civil society ...
Source: swissinfo.ch