Poland accused of abandoning domestic violence victims

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Poland accused of abandoning domestic violence victims

Government criticised over bill that will in effect withdraw country from key international conventionWomen’s rights activists and opposition MPs have accused the Polish government of abandoning victims of domestic violence as a bill that would in effect take the country out of a key international convention on violence against women moved through parliament.A vote last week on its first reading prompted demonstrations around Warsaw, including a…