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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sun Mar 21, 2021, 01:24 PM Mar 2021

Biden rebukes Turkey after it quits accord protecting women

Source: The Guardian


US president calls move ‘deeply disappointing’ as women’s rights advocates say convention is crucial

Staff and agencies
Sun 21 Mar 2021 12.52 EDT

Joe Biden has joined European leaders in condemning Turkey’s withdrawal from a landmark international accord designed to protect women from violence.

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan issued a decree early on Saturday annulling Turkey’s ratification of the Istanbul convention, a landmark European treaty protecting women from violence that it was the first country to sign 10 years ago and that bears the name of its largest city.

The convention requires governments to adopt legislation prosecuting domestic violence and similar abuse as well as marital rape and female genital mutilation.

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“Countries should be working to strengthen and renew their commitments to ending violence against women, not rejecting international treaties designed to protect women and hold abusers accountable,” Biden said in a statement.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/21/joe-biden-condemns-turkey-for-withdrawing-from-accord-designed-to-protect-women

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applegrove

(118,017 posts)
1. Authoritarian's policy must be being led by their leader Putin who does
Sun Mar 21, 2021, 01:43 PM
Mar 2021

not seem to be married. Often psychopaths are sexually inadequate as they don't get turned on my anything but sadism. So this is what is leading the world. Does Erdoğan know this? Someone should ask his feelings on this.

lostnfound

(16,138 posts)
3. Putin has a wife. But this is Putin's politics.
Sun Mar 21, 2021, 05:51 PM
Mar 2021

Brings Turkey closer to Russia and further from Europe and US. Putin may have actively encouraged this move for geopolitical reasons.

lostnfound

(16,138 posts)
6. Well he has an "ex-wife" anyway
Wed Mar 24, 2021, 12:39 PM
Mar 2021

An ex-wife Lyudmila whose current husband is a director of a nonprofit who managed to buy a $7 million home and who is 20 years younger than Lyudmila. One wonders whether he is a husband or a guard.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/04/06/putins-ex-wife-returns-to-the-spotlight-with-a-dashing-young-husband-and-a-fancy-french-villa/

 

marie999

(3,334 posts)
2. I wonder if they still send the daughters of men who owe the government money
Sun Mar 21, 2021, 04:55 PM
Mar 2021

to the karahiny, compound, to work as prostitutes to pay the money owed.

niyad

(112,434 posts)
5. Thank you, President Biden. And thank you for sharing this. Would you consider cross-posting this
Sun Mar 21, 2021, 06:22 PM
Mar 2021

in Women's Rights And Issues? Thanks in advance.

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