Latvia’s parliament voted on Thursday to quit an international treaty aimed at combating violence against women, after a ...

Several thousand people protested against the vote, and it is now up to the president to decide the next step.

Some 32 Latvian lawmakers voted to stay in the pact of the Council of Europe that opposes violence against women, while 56 ...

The Istanbul Convention is a treaty of the Council of Europe that opposes violence against women. The ballot saw 56 Latvian ...

Latvia will have to uphold protection rules for women even if it quits the Istanbul Convention in a divisive move seen as ...

Responding to the Latvian parliament’s vote to leave the Council of Europe convention on preventing and combating violence ...

Latvia’s parliament voted on Thursday to withdraw the Baltic country from a treaty on preventing violence against women, ...

The national airline of Latvia is quite smart. Not only does airBaltic seem to know I'm a journalist, every time I board I'm presented with press releases, but it also takes cryptocurrency. The ...

Latvia’s parliament voted on Thursday to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention on preventing violence against women, claiming ...

Latvian parliament have voted to withdraw from an international accord aimed at protecting women from violence after a long ...

Prime Minister Kristen Michal (Reform) denounced Latvia's plan to leave the Istanbul Convention, calling it the wrong course ...

The Latvian Lutheran Church has gone back on its 40-year-old decision by officially ruling that women cannot be ordained priests. Two-thirds of the 337 synod members voted in favor of changing the ...