Gender related violence is a recognized problem in today’s society in the world and in Sweden. It is present in all cultures and in all types of societies. The issue has gained more attention in Sweden and in the world in the last decades, and through The Istanbul convention serious action has been taken to try to prevent and eliminate the problem. The purpose with this essay is to examine how Sweden, as a country that has signed and ratified the convention, is working preventive and legislative towards ensuring the human rights for women and towards eliminating gender related violence. The result shows that this is an important political question in Sweden, even before the ratification of The Istanbul convention actions had been taken trying to prevent the violence. After the convention Sweden has coordinated the measures taken against the problem. New government agencies have been established, only working with questions relating to the violence, and existing agencies have been given more responsibility to ensure that information and research will reach as many citizens as possible. The result also shows that Sweden’s government consider that the reason that the problem exists is the norms and the social structures in society. If these norms and structures are changed and equality between genders is obtained the problem with gender related violence will disappear and through that the human rights will not be violated.

Denna uppsats skildrar synen på våld och kön och dess samband utifrån Europarådets konvention om avskaffande av våld mot kvinnor och våld i hemmet och Sveriges nationella strategi mot mäns våld mot kvinnor och hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck. Genom att granska dessa teman i texterna ges en aning kring vilka perspektiv som texterna utgår ifrån. Valet av perspektiv och utgånspunkt när det kommer till att jobba med att bekämpa våld i nära relation är av stor vikt och kan vara avgörande i åtgärdernas effektivitet och träffsäkerhet. Våld i nära relation är ett väldigt komplext ämne som innehåller flera olika parametrar att ta hänsyn till och debatten om ur vilket perspektiv man bör se frågan ur har pågått under lång tid. För att kunna tillgodose de åtaganden som en ratificering av konventionen innebär bör det innebära att det krävs att anta ett samstämmigt eller i alla fall liknande förhållningsätt i frågan som det som framkommer i självaste konventionen. Uppsatsen har för avsikt att göra en bedömning om så är fallet med upprättandet av den nationella strategin. / This essay depicts the vision on violence and gender and the connections between them from the perspective of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence and Swedens national strategy against mens violence against women and honour related violence and oppression. By reviewing these themes in these texts it will show an idea of what perspectives the texts assume. When it comes to working towards elimination of domestiv violence it is of great importance what kind of perspective that is choosen to work from and can be crutial to the actions effectivness and accuracy. Domestic violence is a complex subject and contains several diffrent parameters to take into account and the debate about what perspective to adapt has been going on for a long time. To be able to accommodate the commitments that a ratification of the convention implies the adoption of a unanimous or at least simiar approach in the matter as the convention should be needed. This essay aims to asses if thats the case with the national strategy.