Recognising 16 Days of Action to End Violence Against Women and Girls

As an amendment to motion S5M-02820 in the name of Angela Constance (Recognising 16 Days of Action to End Violence Against Women and Girls), leave out from “, and calls on” to end and insert “; notes that measures are already in place to protect women and girls from violence, which comply with or go further than the requirements of the convention; welcomes the UK Government’s commitment to ratify the convention, and further welcomes the parliamentary time secured in the House of Commons by SNP MP, Dr Eilidh Whiteford, to debate this important issue in December 2016.”