{"id":5986,"date":"2024-07-18T10:51:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T09:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ehrac.org.uk\/?post_type=resources&#038;p=5986"},"modified":"2025-12-22T11:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:54:07","slug":"rape-sexual-violence-stigmatisation-victims-ukraine","status":"publish","type":[],"link":"https:\/\/ehrac.org.uk\/en_gb\/resources\/rape-sexual-violence-stigmatisation-victims-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexual Violence and Stigmatisation of Victims in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Content warning: sexual violence against women and girls<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On 18 July 2024, EHRAC and our NGO partners published the <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3YD6Gb1\">NGO Shadow Report on the Implementation of The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence in Ukraine.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>18 July marked two years since Ukraine completed ratification of the Istanbul Convention. The report, co-authored by EHRAC, La Strada Ukraine, Women\u2019s Initiatives for Gender Justice (WIGJ), Equality Now, \u00a0and ULAG (the Ukrainian Legal Advisory Group), and the independent legal consultant Carolyn Edgerton, examines in detail the role of structural inequality, discriminatory attitudes, and gender-based myths and stereotypes on investigations, on the courts\u2019 interpretation of \u00a0consent, and on judgments and sentencing in sexual violence cases.<\/p>\n<p>The report was submitted to the GREVIO Committee, the body responsible for monitoring compliance with the Istanbul Convention.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the report in <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/4s4Uyxb\">Ukrainian<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ehrac.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Sexual-Violence-and-Stigmatisation-of-Victims_GREVIO-shadow-report.pdf\">English<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Content warning: sexual violence against women and girls On 18 July 2024, EHRAC and our NGO partners published the NGO Shadow Report on the Implementation of The Council of Europe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":5993,"parent":0,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"country":[37],"theme":[117],"class_list":["post-5986","resources","type-resources","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","country-ukraine","theme-discrimination"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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