The Polish Minister of Justice, Zbigniew Ziobro, confirmed on Monday 27 July his intention to request his country’s withdrawal from the Council of Europe’s Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, or the Istanbul Convention. A letter to this effect was sent to the Polish Ministry of Family Affairs on Monday.
Mr Ziobro had informed the press of this project as early as Saturday 25 July, deploring the presence in this text of “elements of an...