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BUREAU OF DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND LABOR EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ANNOUNCEMENT: The Department of State will release an addendum to this report in mid 2021 that expands the subsection on Women in Section 6 to include a broader range of issues related
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Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Liz Throssell Location: Geneva Date: 23 March 2021 Turkey’s announcement at the weekend that it was withdrawing from the Istanbul Convention, an important regional human rights treaty on combatting all forms of violence against
By Gul Tuysuz and Isil Sariyuce, CNN Updated 7:31 AM ET, Sun March 21, 2021 Hundreds protest Turkey withdrawing from international treaty to protect women 02:27 Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has withdrawn his country from an international treaty
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bipartisan majority of the U.S. Senate on Tuesday urged President Joe Biden’s administration to push Turkey to do more to protect human rights. Fifty-four of the 100 senators signed the letter, which accused Turkish President Recep
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Turkey: Executive interference in the judiciary and in prosecutorial decisions are en-trenched problems, reflected in the authorities’ systematic practice of detaining, prosecuting, and convicting on bogus and overbroad terrorism and other charges. At the time of writing, an estimated 87
On 7 December 2020 the FEMM Committee held a Public Hearing on “Women’s Rights Defenders (WRD) – EU’s role to combat the increasing attacks against WRD and women’s rights” The hearing discussed the situation of Women’s Rights Defenders by assessing
NGO CSW/NY organizes the civil society side of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). The NGO CSW Forum runs parallel to the events occurring within the UN Headquarters. This provides civil society the opportunity to engage in
In the absence of effective judicial review, a dismissal based on Emergency Legislative Decree No. 677 was in breach of the Convention In today’s Chamber judgment(1) in the case of Pişkin v. Turkey (application no. 33399/18) the European Court of
The Council today adopted a decision and a regulation establishing a global human rights sanctions regime. For the first time, the EU is equipping itself with a framework that will allow it to target individuals, entities and bodies – including state and non-state
Opinions adopted by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention at its eighty-eighth session, 24–28 August 2020 Opinion No. 47/2020 concerning Kahraman Demirez, Mustafa Erdem, Hasan Hüseyin Günakan, Yusuf Karabina, Osman Karakaya and Cihan Özkan (Turkey and Kosovo1)* 1. The Working
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