members of the Polish government have announced the intention to Warsaw to leave this treaty was adopted in 2011 which aims to better protect women from violence.
Several meps, including the heads of the groups, the Socialists and democrats and Renew, are sounding the alarm on Sunday. They are challenging the decision of the conservative government, nationalist Polish of wanting to denounce the Istanbul convention, which aims to better protect women from violence.
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“It is shameful that a member State of the EU wants to withdraw from the convention of Istanbul,” tweeted the Spanish Iratxe Garcia Perez, chair of the S&D group in the european Parliament, who said “to the sides of the Polish citizens who have taken to the streets to demand the respect of the rights of women”.
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intent “scandalous”
The Romanian Dacian Ciolos, chairman of the group, Renew, has stressed that “the fight against violence against women is not an ideology, but a moral obligation”. “Use the fight against the Istanbul convention as an instrument to display his conservative is a new maneuver pitiful and pathetic on the part of some in the Polish government”, he added.
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from the same parliamentary group, the former belgian Prime minister, Guy Verhofstadt, has described the intention as “scandalous”. Hilde Vautmans (Renew), a Belgian, also, has called for the president of the european Commission Ursula von der Leyen to “ensure that accession of the EU to the Istanbul Convention is to be effective in any emergency”.
The text signed by the EU but not yet ratified
A desire shared by the Irish-Frances Fitzgerald, of the EPP group (right), which calls for “the ratification of the convention at european level”, “essential to ensure that no woman is left without protection and vulnerable to violence”. The text has been signed by the EU in 2017, but has not yet been ratified.
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members of the Polish government have recently announced the intention to Warsaw to leave the Istanbul convention, a treaty adopted in 2011 by the Council of Europe (which brings together 47 countries), the first tool of a supra-national set of legally binding standards to prevent violence gender-based nature.
2000 people demonstrated in Warsaw
at the time when it was governed by a coalition of centrist, Poland has signed in 2012 and ratified three years later this convention. The current minister of Justice, Zbigniew Ziobro, was considered then as “an invention, a creation of a feminist who seeks to justify the ideology of gay”. He said Saturday that he would submit on Monday an official document asking the ministry of the Family to prepare for the denunciation of the treaty.
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Friday, about two thousand people marched in Warsaw to protest against this decision of the Polish government. The Council of Europe, a pan-european organisation for the defence of Human rights and the rule of law based in Strasbourg, has also expressed deep concern Sunday of the intentions of the Poland.
