Domestic Abuse 2020-07-22
2020-07-22
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The Domestic Abuse Bill lacks measures to protect migrant women and girls, raising concerns about compliance with the Istanbul convention.
How do the Government intend to protect vulnerable women regardless of their ethnicity, sexual orientation or immigration status if they continue to fail to ratify the convention?
We already protect the rights of victims through various measures outside the Domestic Abuse Bill. The Government is launching a pilot project this year to understand and measure the need of migrant women who have no recourse to public funds.
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