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In Turkey, protests over withdrawal from treaty designed to protect women

AFP, 27 Mar 2021
Feminist organisations protest against Turkey's withdrawal from the world's first binding treaty to prevent and combat violence against women. The 2011 Istanbul Convention, signed by 45 countries and the European Union, requires governments to adopt legislation prosecuting domestic violence and similar abuse as well as marital rape and female genital mutilation.

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