US EditionHundreds Protest Against Looming Latvian U-Turn on Istanbul Convention
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Latvia's coalition party, the Greens and Farmers' Union (ZZS), recently decided to support the opposition's proposal to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention. Hundreds of protesters declared on Thursday that the country must not withdraw from the treaty on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence.
Hundreds protest against looming Latvian U-turn on Istanbul Convention
"No to violence! Yes to the convention!", "Wife-beating is not our value" and "Populism destroys, the convention protects!" – with these and other slogans, several hundred people came to the Saeima on Thursday, October 2nd, to protest against a plan hatched by opposition parties and supported by one of the parties in Latvia's ruling coalition to withdraw from the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and…
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