Why Are Some Countries Dragging Their Heels over Ratifying the Istanbul Convention?
Read: America’s Hyper-Surveillance of Muslims Targets Our Religious IdentityLakshmi Puri, Deputy Executive Director of UN Women, who was a keynote speaker at the 57th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW57) organized by the United Nations, said that beyond the legal basis that a convention provides, the convention also has a “symbolic” importance.