Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence
(asked on 26th October 2021) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will provide details of the outstanding issues preventing the UK's ratification of the Istanbul Convention; and what steps the Government is taking to bring forward (a) legislative or (b) other proposals to enable the ratification of that convention.
This question was answered on 2nd November 2021
The UK signed the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention) in 2012, signalling our strong commitment to tackling violence against women and girls.
This Government remains committed to ratifying the Convention as soon as possible.