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Rights Advocates Demand Concrete Measures 
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Rights Advocates Demand Concrete Measures 

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01 Nisan 2021

Civil Pages discussed the government's Human Rights Action Plan announced in early March with Hülya Gülbahar from Equality Watch Women's Group, Mehmet Arif Koçer from the Rights Initiative, and Tarık Beyhan from Amnesty International, who emphasized that domestic law already has certain positive elements, especially ECHR resolutions -as mentioned in the action plan-, and that the government must instead take concrete measures to be credible.

Crisis in Politics, Crisis in Civil Society 
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Crisis in Politics, Crisis in Civil Society 

Sivil Sayfalar
01 Nisan 2021

Although March began with promises of a Human Rights Action Plan, a severe winter storm had gathered already by the middle of the month: an MP stripped of his status and detained on Parliament premises, a court case filed to shutter an opposition political party – third biggest of the Parliament, a prominent human rights lawyer – president of a leading human rights organization - taken into custody.

“We Want to Do Our Part in Changing the Male Dominant Expert Representation in the Media”
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“We Want to Do Our Part in Changing the Male Dominant Expert Representation in the Media”

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30 Mart 2021

Not Without You, Not Without Your Voice is the name of a platform that was launched to increase the visibility and contribution of women in the media as experts, and to ensure women experts are on equal footing in panels and conferences. We spoke with the Not Without You, Not Without Your Voice platform team about their project for “Let the Women Explain”: Improvement of Women’s Visibility in Media in Turkey. “We want to do our part in changing the male dominated scene where specialists and experts consulted in print and visual media are mostly men,” says the project team.

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