The Hague Conference on Private International Law and Protection of Person from Violence (Provision of Security of Women and Children)

The Agenda of the Hague Conference on Private International Law includes working group discussion of a problem of recognition and enforcement of foreign civil protection orders. Civil protection orders is a legal instrument which is usually used in domestic violence cases. Domestic violence may take different forms of harmful interpersonal behavior. The authors analyze foreign legislation in this sphere of relations, compares it with the Russian legislation and come to the conclusion that it is necessary to broaden the international legal assistance in this sphere. For this purpose the Russian legislation may be accomplished with the institute of civil protection orders, which is now absent in the Civil Process Code. From that point of view the participation of the Russian Federation in the Hague Conference on Private International Law working group seems to be useful both for international relations and Russian legislation because the problem of protection against domestic violence is now being discussed by the Russian specialists in criminal law.