Reports

The Activity Report 2022 (Turkish / English)

Written Input for SR VAW’s Country Visit to Turkey (2022, English)

Reproductive Healthcare Services for Women and Women’s Experiences with Abortion Research Report (2021, Turkish, English) It is our sincere wish that the study on Reproductive Healthcare Services for Women and Women’s Experiences with Abortion to both demonstrate women’s experiences, perceptions, and emotions with respect to their bodies, sexuality, childbearing and abortion and to safeguard the right to abortion, legal yet inaccessible in Turkey, while also identifying effective feminist methods of activism and advocacy strategies.

Shadow Report on the 8th Periodic Review of Turkey Submitted by The Executive Committee on NGO Forum for CEDAWto theUnited Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (2021, Turkish, English) List of Issues and Questions in Relation to the 8th Periodic Report of Turkey on CEDAW (2021, Turkish, English) Shadow Report on the 8th Periodic Review of Turkey Submitted by The Executive Committee on NGO Forum for CEDAWto theUnited Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women - Uptated in 2022 (Turkish, English)

Being a Woman in the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Research Study (2021, Turkish, Turkish Summary, English Summary) It is our sincere wish that the study on Being a Woman in the Covid-19 Pandemic will contribute to discussions on how to ensure women’s rights and gender equality during the Covid-19 global pandemic and in any other crises in the future.

Feminist Response to Covid-19 (2020, Turkish, English) This document has been prepared by feminists - organizations and activists, working across global movements focusing on human rights, sustainable development, and economic and social justice. It propounds that feminist principles and politics for an equal, just, and free world order centered on gender equality and human rights in the face of rights violations and injustices such as gender inequality exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic must be at the core of any response to the ongoing pandemic.

Impact Assessment Report of the Human Rights Education Program for Women (HREP) 2012-2018 (2019, Turkish, Turkish Summary, English, English Summary)

Turkey’s Second VNR Civil Society Alternative Report (2019, Turkish, English) Women for Women’s Human Rights, Women’s Solidarity Foundation, Association for Struggle Against Sexual Violence, Foundation for Women’s Solidarity, Women’s Coalition – International Working Group, Purple Roof Women’s Shelter Foundation, EŞİTİZ – Equality Monitoring Women’s Group, YERELİZ – Local Monitoring, Research and Implementation Association, Istanbul, 2019

Policy Position Paper by Beijing+25 Women’s Platform Turkey (2019, Turkish, English) Istanbul, 2019

Recommendations from the Women’s Major Group on Engaging with the Voluntary National Review (VNR) Process (2017, Turkish) Women for Women’s Human Rights, FEIM, ActionAid France, International Women’s Rights Action Watch, International Women’s Health Coalition Translated by: Defne Orhun

Shadow NGO Report on Turkey’s First Report on legislative and other measures giving effect to the provisions of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (2017, Turkish, English) Women for Women’s Human Rights, Purple Roof Women’s Shelter Foundation, Women’s Solidarity Foundation, Foundation for Women’s Solidarity, Equality Monitoring Women’s Group, Association for Women with Disabilities, Kaos Gay and Lesbian Cultural Research and Solidarity Association, Association for Struggle Against Sexual Violence Istanbul, 2017

United Nations Commission on the Status of Women 60th Session March 14 – 24, 2016 Agreed Conclusions (2016, Turkish) Translated by: Nazan Moroğlu