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a feminist discussion on the “human rights defender” paradigm in turkey
november 2021
author: Duru Yavan
This report introduces a gender caveat to the “human rights defender” discourses and mechanisms that are increasingly influential in Turkey, thus hoping to contribute to the gendering of the field and, on this occasion, to make women’s gendered experiences visible.
defending rights between institutions, identities and subjectivities: a gender perspective on civil society
november 2021
author: Gülistan Zeren
This report aims to reveal the gendered structure of civil society and the struggle for rights, and to determine how women are affected by these gendered patterns in the field of human rights in their everyday lives.
women and LGBTQI+ actors as lifelines of each other: relations, alliances, disjunctures in the field of human rights
november 2021
author: Hande Gülen
The report, draws on the experiences of the actors in the field to question the disjunctions between the feminist and LGBTQI+ movement and the human rights movement and to reflect on the reasons for this distance.the Istanbul convention, gender politics and beyond:
poland and turkey
may 2021
author: cemre baytokThis report will first provide a comprehensive mapping of the political landscape surrounding women’s rights in both countries with an emphasis on current issues and secondly explore women’s struggles and mobilization in response to the backlash in order to identify common strategies for civil society actors.
resistance to lgbti+ equality
anti-gender measures
in hungary and turkey
november 2021
author: deniz yıldız
This report is on issues surrounding the recent attack on the LGBTI+ community in Hungary and Turkey, the implication that these attacks have on the work of the LGBTI+ civil society actors and organizations, potential threats to the safety of the individuals advocating for LGBTI+ rights and ways in which LGBTI+ civil society actors are strategizing and building networks with international allies.
shout out, let them all hear you:
evolving international advocacy approaches and practices of civil society in turkey
may 2021author: özlem zıngıl
The purpose of this information brief is to frame the landscape of the rights-based civil society in Turkey with respect to international advocacy and to provide information for the identification of groups of contacts that will be defined below.
against the stream
NGOs facing illiberal policies:
hungary and turkey
november 2021author: lászló detre
This report discusses the attempts to question foreign funding, particular in terms of its source, amount, and recipients in Hungary and Turkey as a method of criminalising different civil society actors.