The country's parliament, or Saeima, voted on 31 October to withdraw from the human rights treaty which opposes violence ...

Latvia's President Edgars Rinkevics on Monday sent back to parliament a controversial law withdrawing the Baltic state from a European treaty combating violence against women.

Responding to the Latvian parliament’s vote to leave the Council of Europe convention on preventing and combating violence ...

Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal has criticized the decision of the Latvian Saeima to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic ...

Video. Latvia will have to uphold protection rules for women even if it quits the Istanbul Convention in a divisive move seen ...

Latvia will have to uphold protection rules for women even if it quits the Istanbul Convention in a divisive move seen as backtracking on fundamental rights.View on euronews ...

If the Latvian president signs the motion, the Baltic state will become the first and only EU country to leave the convention ...

The Latvian Parliament voted Thursday to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention, a treaty aimed at supporting women who are ...

Several thousand people protested against the vote, and it is now up to the president to decide the next step.

The Istanbul Convention is a treaty of the Council of Europe that opposes violence against women. The ballot saw 56 Latvian ...

France is the latest country to change its criminal code to a consent-based definition of rape, but other developed countries ...