IC Change

IC Change is a volunteer-led campaign for the UK Government to ratify the Istanbul Convention on violence against women. The campaign launched in 2014 with a petition, has a coalition of over 70 organisations, and secured a law in 2017, the Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Ratification of Convention) Act 2017. […]

We welcome that the UK Government complied with the IC Act - and was on time in reporting the progress it has made towards ratifying the Istanbul Convention. This report states that the only barrier for the UK government to ratify is compliance with Article 44 - Extra-territorial jurisdiction. In other words, across the UK […]