Today, in Strasbourg, in the presence of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Mr Thorbjørn Jagland, Ms Elke Ferner, Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth of Germany, deposited the instrument of ratification by Germany, of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (CETS No.210).

The ratification will enter into force, in respect of Germany, on the 1st of February 2018.

Germany becomes the 25th States to ratify the Convention.