On 6 April next, at 8:30 am (Lisbon time), a high-level conference will be held on the “10th anniversary of signing the Istanbul Convention. The state of play”, organised by the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union. This conference is aimed at reviewing the ten years of the Istanbul Convention, analysing the impacts of the pandemic and, in particular, reflecting on the measures and concrete actions needed to ensure that the standards of the Convention are met, in accordance with the EU's fundamental priority of putting an end to all kinds of violence against women and girls and the new EU Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025.