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Advocacy necessary to implement the judgement may require
action from ministries’ agencies across government, such as
ministry of the interior (policing), ministry of justice (criminal
justice system, lawyers and judges), ministries of health and
social services (rehabilitation of victims) and ministries of
education and equality. Promising practice indicates that there
could be established an authoritative centre coordinating the
execution of judgements, for example, a parliamentary
monitoring group. 674 A national human rights institution may
also have the expertise to assist initiatives of the executive in
implementing judgments. The Istanbul Convention mandates
the establishment of comprehensive and co-ordinated
policies 675 and a coordinating body 676 to ensure “co-ordination,
674
Open Society Justice Initiative, “From Judgment to Justice:
Implementing International and Regional Human Rights
Decisions”(November 2010), page 42.
675
Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating
violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention)
of 11 May 2011, Article 7(1) Parties shall take the necessary
legislative and other measures to adopt and implement State-wide
effective, comprehensive and co-ordinated policies encompassing all
relevant measures to prevent and combat all forms of violence
covered by the scope of this Convention and offer a holistic response
to violence against women; Article 7(2) Parties shall ensure that
policies referred to in paragraph 1 place the rights of the victim at the
centre of all measures and are implemented by way of effective cooperation
among all relevant agencies, institutions and organisations;
and Article 7(3) Measures taken pursuant to this article shall involve,
where appropriate, all relevant actors, such as government agencies,
the national, regional and local parliaments and authorities, national
human rights institutions and civil society organisations.
676
Ibid, Article 10(1) Parties shall designate or establish one or more
official bodies responsible for the co-ordination, implementation,
monitoring and evaluation of policies and measures to prevent and
combat all forms of violence covered by this Convention. These bodies
shall co-ordinate the collection of data as referred to in Article 11,
analyse and disseminate its results; Article 10(2) Parties shall ensure
that the bodies designated or established pursuant to this article
receive information of a general nature on measures taken pursuant to
Chapter VIII; and Article 10(3) Parties shall ensure that the bodies
designated or established pursuant to this article shall have the