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Article 22 – Gender-Based Violence

1. The Signatory recognizes that gender-based violence, which disproportionately affects women, constitutes a violation of fundamental human rights and is an offence to the dignity and to the physical and emotional integrity of human beings.

2. The Signatory recognises that gender-based violence arises from the idea, on the part of the perpetrator, of the superiority of one sex over the other in the context of an unequal relationship of power.

3. The Signatory therefore commits itself to establish and strengthen policies and actions against gender-based violence, including:

• Providing or assisting specific support structures for victims

• Providing public information, in each of the mainly used local languages, on the assistance available in the area

• Ensuring that professional staff have training in identifying and supporting victims

• Ensuring that there is effective co-ordination between the relevant services such as the police, health and housing authorities

• Promoting awareness-raising campaigns and educational programmes aimed at potential and actual victims and perpetrators.