JOE BIDEN SLAMMED TURKEY'S DECISION

President Joe Biden slammed Turkey's decision to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention combatting domestic violence and violence against women. 
In a statement put out by the White House on Sunday, Mr Biden said that Turkey's "sudden and unwarranted withdrawal" was deeply disappointing.
Mr Biden noted that we are seeing an increase in domestic violence and violence against women, including reports of rising femicide in Turkey, which is the first nation to sign the convention.
He added that nations should be strengthening their commitments to work to end violence against women instead of leaving agreements designed to protect women and hold abusers accountable.
"This is a disheartening step backward for the international movement to end violence against women globally, gender-based violence is a scourge that touches every nation in every corner of the world". President Biden said.
Mentioning the murders of women in Georgia, he said in the past few weeks, we’ve seen too many examples of horrific and brutal assaults on women.
He concluded that violence against women hurts all of us and that everyone must do more to create societies where women are able to go about their lives free from violence.
An analysis by the National Commission on Covid-19 and Criminal Justice showed that during lockdown imposed because of the pandemic, incidents of domestic violence rose by 8.1 per cent.
Thousands protested in Turkey on Saturday after the decision to withdraw by president Recep Tayyip Erdogan was announced. The full name of the convention is "the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence," and says that men and women have equal rights and calls on authorities to combat gender-based violence, protect victims and prosecute those committing violent acts.

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