Country Iceland
Year 2018 - 2022
Type of Measure Policies > National action plan specific to violence against women
Form of Violence Sexual violence

Brief Description


The Action Plan on Handling of Sexual Offences by the Judicial System was adopted by the Minster of Justice shortly after Iceland ratified the Istanbul Convention of 2011 in 2018. 

Source of Information

Iceland's submission for National Review for Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action, Beijing+25, 2019, p.25 and p.36

For more information: Report submitted by Iceland pursuant to Article 68, paragraph 1 of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Baseline Report) (2021)