The Special Event of the President of the General Assembly’s event, a CSW65 Side Event, “Political Leadership and Violence Against Women and Girls: Prevention First” was held on 23 March 2021. A highlight of the meeting was that the Representative from Liechtenstein announced that the country was putting a bill through parliament to ratify the Istanbul Convention.
Liechtenstein, a small country sandwiched between Switzerland and Austria, only 25 kilometres long and with a population of less than 40,000, may not often grab headlines but with this announcement coming only days after Turkey announced it’s intent to withdraw from the Convention, it was clearly a message to the international community, writes Francesca Fletcher Williams, SI Global Policy Coordinator at Soroptimist International.
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