Specialist support services (Article 22, Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence)

Definition

1 Parties shall take the necessary legislative or other measures to provide or arrange for, in an adequate geographical distribution, immediate, short‐ and long‐term specialist support services to any victim subjected to any of the acts of violence covered by the scope of this Convention.

2 Parties shall provide or arrange for specialist women’s support services to all women victims of violence and their children.

Related terms:

Parent term:

Chapter IV – Protection and support (Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence)

Sibling terms:

General obligations (Article 18, Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence)
Information (Article 19, Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence)
General support services (Article 20, Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence)
Assistance in individual/collective complaints (Article 21, Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence)
Shelters (Article 23, Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence)
Telephone helplines (Article 24, Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence)
Support for victims of sexual violence (Article 25, Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence)
Protection and support for child witnesses (Article 26, Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence)
Reporting (Article 27, Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence)
Reporting by professionals (Article 28, Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence)