It is time for the EU to ratify the Istanbul Convention. This is the message conveyed by a draft interim report presented on Tuesday 29 November by the European Parliament’s Committees on Civil Liberties (LIBE) and Gender Equality (FEMM).
“It’s an absolute shame that, to this day, not all Member States have ratified the Istanbul Convention and that the EU itself has not acceded it yet”, lamented co-rapporteur Łukasz Kohut (S&D, Polish). Indeed, while all have signed it, Bulgaria,...