The Senate of the Czech Republic has voted against ratifying the Istanbul Convention, a convention from the Council of Europe (COE) intended to curb domestic violence and violence against women. Czech ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People hold placards during a protest on Cathedral Square in the Latvian capital against a possible withdrawal of the Baltic EU ...

In protest against Turkey’s withdrawal from the İstanbul Convention by a Presidential decision, women’s organizations have made a call for the rally to be held in İstanbul’s Maltepe in İstanbul on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands of demonstrators gathered in the Latvian capital on Thursday night to protest against the country's possible withdrawal ...

"As known, Turkey was the first signatory to the Istanbul Convention," the statement noted, arguing that the "İstanbul Convention, originally intended to promote women's rights, was hijacked by a ...

Latvia's President Edgars Rinkēvičs has said he is sending a law on the country's withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention back to parliament for further review, public broadcaster LSM reported on ...

Femicides, domestic violence, cyber-stalking: the Istanbul Convention aims to prevent and eliminate violence against women. While some EU members and other European nations have ratified it, others ...

The immediate fate of the Istanbul Convention in Poland and Czechia masks a more complicated picture recently about women’s rights in the two countries. Though generally considered among the most ...