The government will consider the report, which many call a "echo of the Istanbul Convention."
Let us remind you that at the end of last year, due to the attempts of the majority of the Saeima deputies to denounce the Istanbul Convention, the government nearly collapsed. Supporters of abandoning the convention proposed a "replacement" in the form of a Saeima Declaration against domestic violence and more.
This document tasked the government with reporting on real measures to prevent and combat violence.
And at the upcoming government meeting, a multi-page report from the Ministry of Welfare on this topic will be considered. To summarize everything presented in the report (and the document could serve as a research paper or even a thesis), one can conclude that all necessary mechanisms for eradicating violence have been established in Latvia! Moreover, for each type of violence (against women, children, etc.), for every type of discrimination (in the family, at work, etc.), there is a legal response - that is, legal norms. There are even action plans to combat violence! Yes, in terms of the number of plans, declarations, and informational reports, we have no equal in the world!
To be fair, it should be noted that in recent years, the state has indeed tightened the punishment for manifestations of violence - both physical and psychological - and introduced a mechanism for protecting victims from their abusers (restraining orders).
"The Civil Procedure Law establishes the basis for temporary protection from violence, namely, if any physical, sexual, psychological, or economic violence or violent control is directed against a person, occurring between former or current spouses or other related persons, regardless of whether the aggrieved person lived or lived in the same household with the affected person, the court or judge may, upon a motivated application from the person or an application submitted through the police, make a decision on temporary protection from violence.
The Criminal Law establishes criminal legal protection against violence and domestic violence, as well as liability for violence against women and domestic violence, including criminal liability for physical and sexual violence, rape, emotional abuse, criminal liability for mutilation of female genitalia or loss of reproductive capacity, as well as for threats and stalking," the Ministry of Welfare's report states.
