Overwhelming Majority For Landmark Law To Tackle Violence Against Women

With thanks to Banff & Buchan SNP. Local MP Dr Eilidh Whiteford’s Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Ratification of Convention) Bill 2017, requires the UK government to ratify the Istanbul Convention - a far-reaching new law that puts legal obligations on the state to prevent violence against women, protect women and prosecute the perpetrators. The Convention encompasses many forms of sexual violence and domestic abuse including stalking, harassment, sexual assault and rape, physical and psychological abuse by a partner, forced marriage, forced abortion or sterilisation and female genital mutilation.