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Keynote:  Europe - Different Initiatives on Domestic Abuse, An overview from the  Council of Europe and European Commission  – Johanna Nelles, Co-secretary of the Ad Hoc Committee on Preventing Violence Against  Women and Domestic Violence (Strasbourg) & Ingrid Bellander-Todino, DAPHNE Programme  Coordinator (Brussels)

In the past 20 years, the Council of Europe has carried out a range of activities, projects and programmes to combat violence against women. Its recent Campaign to Combat Violence against Women, including Domestic Violence, has led to a heightened level of awareness of violence against women among governments, parliamentarians and civil society. As a result, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has decided to set up a working group to develop a legally binding instrument to combat violence against women and domestic violence. At the same time, many important initiatives have been introduced and implemented throughout Europe.
This presentation will provide an overview over Council of Europe activities to prevent and combat violence against women as well as measures taken at national level.

The European Commission addresses the problem of violence against women and children through many legislative and policy initiatives and actions. Most concretely, the Commission provides financial support through the Daphne III Programme to European partnerships and networks of NGOs and local public entities that work towards the eradication of violence against women, young people and children.
This presentation will provide an overview of the Daphne programme and its experiences in the area of domestic abuse.

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PRESENTER BIOGRAPHY

TUE_3a_NellesJohanna Nelles
After obtaining a degree in law from the University of Heidelberg (Germany) and an M.A. in human rights from the University of Padua (Italy), Johanna embarked on a career in the field of women's human rights. She has worked for UNESCAP on legal issues surrounding cross-border co-operation, to combat trafficking in women and children in Asia.  She has run seminars for NGOs on using international human rights law to further women's rights while working for the German Institute for Human Rights.  Admitted to the Bar in Germany, Johanna currently works for the Gender Equality Division of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France. She is responsible for projects and activities in the field of violence against women and is Co-Secretary to the Ad-Hoc Committee on violence against women and domestic violence (CAHVIO), an expert committee mandated to draft a convention in this field.

TUE_3a_IngridBTpicIngrid Bellander-Todino
Ingrid Bellander-Todino, a Swedish national and mother of two girls, lives and works in Brussels. She is responsible for the Daphne III Programme to combat violence against children, young people and women in Directorate General Justice, Freedom and Security of the European Commission in Brussels. Before joining the Commission in September 2004, Ingrid worked for five years as a legal counsel at the International Fund for Agricultural Development, a United Nations organisation based in Rome. She has also practiced EC law in an international law firm in Brussels. Ingrid has a law degree from Uppsala University in Sweden and a Master's in EC Law from Institut d'Etudes Européennes/ULB University in Brussels.