On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization declared that the COVID-19 outbreak had reached the level of a global pandemic. While United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called on governments to take urgent action to stop the spread of the virus, with the understanding that such an exceptional situation would Read more…
Human Rights Defenders Solidarity Network in Turkey components Association for Monitoring Equal Rights (Turkey), Civil Rights Defenders (Sweden), Truth Justice Memory Center (Turkey), Human Rights Association (Turkey), Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (Turkey), Life Memory Freedom Association (Turkey), Media and Law Studies Association (Turkey), Netherlands Helsinki Committee (Netherlands), P24 Association for Independent Journalism (Turkey), Research Institute Read more…
We demand that the related articles in the bill be withdrawn and that such bills be not drawn up without receiving the views of social partners.
2020: Another Difficult Year for Civil Society and Rights Defenders December 17 2020 Intimidation of civil society through judicial processes The process that started with the arrest of 10 human rights defenders (who had gathered in Istanbul Büyükada for a training workshop) on 5 July 2017 following a police raid, Read more…
Solidarity Network Today Marks the 1st Anniversary of its Founding Declaration December 17, 2020 As the Solidarity Network for Human Rights Defenders – Turkey, whose foundations were laid in the first months of 2019 and who officially declared its establishment with the call of 13 institutions on 17 December 2019, Read more…
Organized jointly by Hafıza Merkezi, Association for Monitoring Equal Rights and Netherlands Helsinki Committee, the panel is part of a series titled Shrinking Democratic Spaces and International Solidarity. Panel speakers are Alessandra Orofina, Director of Nossas (“Ours” in Portuguese), social movement network in Brazil and Yaşar Adanalı, from Center for Read more…
JOINT STATEMENT 20 November 2020 RELEASE ALL DETAINED HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS, LAWYERS AND CSO REPRESENTATIVES Today (20 November 2020), within the scope of the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office’s investigation no. 2019/63324, many rights defenders, lawyers and CSO representatives were detained in Diyarbakır and surrounding provinces in the early hours of Read more…
The panel LGBTI+ Rights in Turkey and Poland will be held online on November 18, Wednesday at 16.00 (GMT+3). You may join the live-stream in Turkish and English. Organized jointly by Hafıza Merkezi, Association for Monitoring Equal Rights and Netherlands Helsinki Committee, the panel is part of a series titled Shrinking Democratic Spaces and International Solidarity. Panel speakers are Karolina Gierdal, General Read more…
The 2nd International Discrimination Conference, organised by Equality Forum which was originally set to be held in April but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will be held online due to the pandemic conditions with different sessions on the following dates during three weekends: 24 – 25th October, 31st Read more…
The 2nd International Discrimination Conference, organised by Equality Forum which was originally set to be held in April but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will be held online due to the pandemic conditions with different sessions on the following dates during three weekends: 24 – 25th October, 31st Read more…