Guest blog by Louise Jenkins, member of the Fair Development Collective and Women’s and Girls’ Rights Independent Consultant. Original post can be seen here. On the 16th December 2016, 135 MPs showed up to the second reading of the Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Ratification of Convention) Bill, which calls on the UK Government to ratify the Istanbul Convention. Despite misogynistic Philip Davies’ attempt to block the Bill with his sham