“Polish parliamentarians should fulfil their responsibility to hold the government accountable for implementing the standards they have subscribed to” by ratifying the Council of Europe's Istanbul Convention, said Rik Daems, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Béatrice Fresko-Rolfo, PACE rapporteur on violence against women, and Pieter Omtzigt and Azadeh Rojhan Gustafsson, co-rapporteurs on Poland's monitoring procedure.
In a Joint Declaration issued...