Zelensky introduces bill to Verkhovna Rada to ratify Istanbul Convention

The Verkhovna Rada shared the news on its website.

The Istanbul Convention or the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence is an international agreement, first signed in 2011.

This is the first document that legally obliges to create a legal basis for combating violence against women. Countries that have acceded to the convention must criminalize psychological violence, harassment, physical and sexual violence, forced marriage, forced abortion and sterilization.