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The Violent Implications of Opposition to the Istanbul Convention

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  • Conny Roggeband

    (Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, 1018 WV Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

  • Andrea Krizsán

    (Department of Public Policy, Central European University, 1100 Vienna, Austria)

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This paper focuses on campaigns against the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention). These campaigns not only obstructed ratification processes in a number of countries, but also that the openly hostile and highly gendered attacks had a direct impact on women’s rights activists and their work, seriously hindering their work, but also affecting their well-being and safety. In this paper we explore the violent implications of the campaigns against the Istanbul Convention which are part of wider anti-gender campaigns. We argue that the violence of the campaigns and the violent implications should be considered gendered political violence, which effectively marginalizes women and other targeted groups and obstructs their participation in society and politics and as such is central to current autocratization tendencies and undermining of democracy.

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  • Conny Roggeband & Andrea Krizsán, 2024. "The Violent Implications of Opposition to the Istanbul Convention," Societies, MDPI, vol. 14(6), pages 1-15, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsoctx:v:14:y:2024:i:6:p:92-:d:1416538
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