Organised by Equality Forum which AMER is one of the components, The 2nd International Discrimination Conference, 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 Read more…
With his work, Tahir Elçi was one of the invaluable human rights defenders and lawyers in Turkey. We call for all the circumstances surrounding this killing, which deeply hurt the human rights movement in Turkey, to be fully brought into light; and all public officials who bear responsibility -whether by their acts or out of negligence- to be prosecuted in the case; and the killing of Tahir Elçi not to end up with impunity.
The new bill of indictment issued by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office against Osman Kavala, a defender of human rights and peace, was accepted by the Istanbul 36th High Criminal Court on 8 October 2020, and the court ruled that Kavala’s pre-trial detention shall continue. Thus, a new phase Read more…
The member organisations of Solidarity Network for Human Rights Defenders have written a letter to the United Nations (UN) special mandate holders, underlining the recent increase in attacks on LGBTI+ people in Turkey. The letter demands an urgent intervention from the UN authorities. The letter has been addressed to the Read more…
JOINT PRESS STATEMENT 3 July 2020, After the Hearing, Çağlayan Courthouse, Istanbul This prosecution, which has nothing to do with the laws and should have never been opened in the first place, is concluded with another unlawful decision. The court decision based solely on trumped-up charges, all of which have Read more…
Today, at the final hearing of this prosecution which should have never been opened, the only fair judgment will be the acquittal of all 11 human rights defenders without exception.
On Wednesday 29th of April, we will have an interview about Covid-19 Measures and Persons with Disabilities, with UN Special Raporteur Ms. C. Devandas Aguilar.
On the 900th day of Osman Kavala’s Detention, We Repeat: Free All the Rights Defenders Now 18 April 2020 On 14 April 2020, the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Turkey stated that there are overall 17 confirmed coronavirus cases among the prisoners in 5 prisons in Turkey, and Read more…
37 rights-groups calls for reduction of pre-trial detention in Turkey and for the use of alternatives to detention, in order to reduce the danger of outbreaks of the COVID-19 disease, as a safety measure for the health and wellbeing of the penitentiary staff and detainees, and to avoid disproportionate isolation procedures inside prisons with this joint statement.
Governments must ensure that their response to the COVID-19 pandemic does not contribute to xenophobia and racial discrimination, and must eradicate xenophobia throughout all State policy and messaging, said E. Tendayi Achiume, UN Special Rapporteur on racism, on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.