Today, the
Council of Europe Expert Group on Action against Violence against Women and
Domestic Violence (GREVIO) published its first baseline evaluation report on
Netherlands.
The report
contains a comprehensive analysis of the implementation of the provisions of
the Istanbul Convention. It highlights the long history of addressing domestic
violence through holistic policy and legislation, including the multi-agency
approach of the current multi-annual national action plan "Violence does
not belong anywhere” (2018-2021) and the one-stop domestic violence programmes
("Safe Home”). Efforts to raise awareness of the need for healthy intimate
relationships among youth are ongoing and there has been a significant increase
of budget spending for child and domestic violence programmes.
