Spain calls for Europe-wide protection for battered women
Posted on January 12, 2010
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Spain launched a campaign for a Europe-wide system of restraint orders aimed at curbing violence against women, calling for crime statistics to be reconfigured to highlight gender violence and for EU legislation offering protection to battered women across national borders.
Opening Madrid’s six-month rotating presidency of the EU and seeking to build on its progressive governance agenda, Alfredo Rubalcaba, the interior minister, called for a new approach to the problem, for special police units dealing with battered women, and for special treatment of the issues by European judiciaries.
In Brussels yesterday Spanish officials, supported by officials from 11 of the 27 EU member states, initiated draft legislation on a European protection order which would, if it became law, mean that a woman protected from an abusive and violent male by a police restraint order in any EU country would enjoy the same protection across all member states. The initiative is supported by countries from Bulgaria to Finland. The list of backers includes France and Italy, though so far neither Britain nor Germany.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/08/spain-europe-protection-battered-women
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Where is the link between this article and population growth?
Reply to Svante,
Limiting population growth relies on women being able to make a positive choice to limit the number of children they have. They can’t do that if they’re subject to assault and intimidation by their partners.