Badell Sánchez, DiegoBarbé, Esther2025-03-042025-03-042025Badell D, Barbé E. The European Union and the fragmentation of the international human rights regime: the case of violence against women. In: Costa O, Soler i Lecha E, Vlaskamp MC, editors. EU foreign policy in a fragmenting international order. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan; c2025. p. 85-116. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-64060-5_4978-3-031-64059-9978-3-031-64062-9http://hdl.handle.net/10230/69805This book chapter scrutinizes divergent attitudes toward human rights universality, focusing on women’s rights, particularly in combating violence against women. It reveals cracks at both the international and pan-European levels. Moreover, the chapter illustrates that the European Union is not immune to such fractures. Tensions emerge, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe, regarding the Istanbul Convention, reflecting a broader debate on universalistic versus traditional values, as well as on the appropriate governance level to address violence against women.application/pdfeng© The Author(s) 2025. This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this chapter are included in the chapter’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the chapter’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder.Violència envers les dones -- Unió Europea, Països de laDrets humansDrets humansDrets humans -- Unió Europea, Països de laDrets de les donesinfo:eu-repo/semantics/bookParthttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64060-5_4info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess