POLAND
Business Recorder
WARSAW: Poland’s parliament voted Friday to ratify a treaty combatting violence against women, despite considerable opposition from the right and the country’s powerful Catholic Church.
Lawmakers voted by 254 to 175 in favour of adopting the 2011 Istanbul Convention, the world’s first binding instrument to prevent and combat violence against women, from marital rape to female genital mutilation. Eight lawmakers abstained.
Critics claim the treaty links violence to religion and tradition. The Polish episcopate said the convention is based on “extremist, neo-Marxist gender theory”.
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