Stubberud, Elisabeth og Hovde, Karin | Aarbakke, Mari Helenedatter
For more than 40 years the Nordic countries have had a constructive cooperation on the field of equality. The countries generally agree on the policies, but the tools and measures to get there may vary. All the Nordic countries agree on a zero-tolerance for violence against women and domestic violence, and consider freedom from violence a prerequisite for an equal society. Through constructive collaboration we get to know each other across the borders, and by sharing knowledge and good examples with each other, we are better equipped for achieving an equal society throughout the Nordic region. In 2011, the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (the Istanbul Convention) was adopted. The convention is signed by all the Nordic countries, and is ratified by all the countries except Iceland. The main purpose of this report is to shed light on the work that is currently being carried out in the Nordic countries on violence against women and domestic violence, so that we can learn from one another. Taking the Istanbul Convention as a starting point, this report looks closely at the measures taken by the Nordic countries with reference to a set of Articles in the Convention. Prevention is of particular importance here. The report presents the work being done in each of the Nordic countries, analyses part of this work, and collates a selection of good practices from the Nordic countries. The report is aimed at politicians, policy makers, public administrators, researchers, and everyone else working in the field of violence against women and domestic violence. KUN has been working on issues concerning gender equality, violence against women and domestic violence, along with violence against specific vulnerable groups since we were established in 1991. We are grateful for the opportunity to expand our work through this report. We would like to thank the Nordic Council of Ministers for making these problematics their priority. We are also grateful to the project group, consisting of members from the Norwegian Ministry of Children and Equality and the Ministry of Justice and Public Security for the collaboration in this project. Thank you to Tommy Knutsen, Hilde Knotten, Line Nersnæs, and Kari Framnes, and the representatives from the Secretariat for the Nordic Committee of Senior Officials for Gender Equality who read and commented on the report. We are also particularly indebted to Stine Bang Svendsen who read, commented and contributed to chapter 4 of this report. Finally, we are particularly grateful to the ministries and departments in the Nordic countries who generously provided us with all the information we needed, and to the academics, representatives from NGOs and frontline services, and everyone else who have supplemented this information.
147 s., utgitt av KUN i 2018.