Women protested Turkey's withdrawal from the İstanbul Convention in İstanbul's Üsküdar district yesterday (March 25). Underlining the importance of the Convention for women and LGBTI+s, women ...

Istanbul — Despite cold and rain, anger drove hundreds of Turkish women onto one of Istanbul's busy squares over the weekend to urge Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to reverse his decision to ...

At 3 a.m. on Saturday morning, Turkey announced through its official gazette that it was formally withdrawing from the Istanbul Convention, an international treaty to combat violence against women and ...

The Senate of the Czech Republic has voted against ratifying the Istanbul Convention, a convention from the Council of Europe (COE) intended to curb domestic violence and violence against women. Czech ...

Peoples' Democratic Party's (HDP) women MPs took action in İstanbul and Diyarbakır for the İstanbul Convention, which was opened for signature 10 years ago today (May 11). In Turkey's southeastern ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed a law ratifying the Council of Europe Convention preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (known as the Istanbul Convention). This ...

Poland has begun diplomatic efforts in neighbouring countries to rally support for a “family rights convention” – initiated by ultra-conservatives and designed as a regional challenge to the Istanbul ...

Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada Monday ratified the Council of Europe’s Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (“Istanbul Convention“). In a 259-8 Vote, the ...

Istanbul is emerging as a new global business hub due to massive infrastructure improvements, including what will be the largest capacity airport in Europe, but security fears could potentially dampen ...