00:00The Latvian Parliament voted on Thursday to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention, a treaty that opposes domestic violence and violence against women.
00:11Nevertheless, the country would still be obliged to apply parts of the treaty, even if its exit is finalized, the European Commission has said.
00:20This text on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence is signed and ratified by 39 European and Central Asian countries.
00:28As the EU joined as a whole, the treaty is legally binding for all EU member states, the Commission said on Friday.
00:36For a Latvian NGO, the Istanbul Convention led to major improvements.
00:41For the first time, we have created the National Action Plan on Alleviating Violence, which is a five-year plan.
00:47For the first time, we have introduced the definition of sexual harassment in our law, which did not exist until November last year.
00:53We have improved our criminal law.
00:56We have included emotional abuse into our criminal law.
01:01The European Commission has yet to comment directly on the vote.
01:04It says, however, that it wants to wait until the national process in Latvia has been completed before doing so.
01:10Latvia's exit from the treaty is currently pending approval from the country's president.
01:15Latvia's exit from the Questionов
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