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UN women’s rights committee urges Turkey to reconsider withdrawal from Istanbul Convention as decision takes effect 7/1/2021
  • Press Releases
  • Turkey
  • Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
  • Women
 E F S R C A
Turkey: Stop mis-using the law to detain human rights defenders, urges UN expert 6/9/2021
  • Press Releases
  • Turkey
  • Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
  • Sp. Rapporteur on independence of judges and lawyers
  • Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • Sp. Rapporteur on torture
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the right to everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
  • Human rights defenders
  • Torture and inhuman treatment
  • Independence of judiciary
  • Health
  • Freedom of association
 E F S R C A
Turkey: Withdrawal from Istanbul Convention is a pushback against women’s rights, say human rights experts 3/23/2021
  • Press Releases
  • Turkey
  • Sp. Rapporteur on occupied Palestine
  • Special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
  • Sp. Rapporteur on violence against women
  • Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls
  • Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
  • Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity
  • Sp. Rapporteur on freedom of expression
  • Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
  • Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons especially women and children
  • Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence
  • Sp. Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery
  • Sp. Rapporteur on torture
  • Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment
  • Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
  • Sp. Rapporteur on summary executions
  • Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the right to food
  • Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
  • Older persons
  • Working Group on the use of mercenaries
  • Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises
  • WG on Arbitrary Detention
  • Special Rapporteur on the right to development
  • Sp. Rapporteur on independence of judges and lawyers
  • Independent expert older persons
  • Sp. Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing
  • Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the sale of children
  • Violence against women
  • Women
  • Sexual orientation and gender identity
  • Women rights
  • Freedom of opinion and expression
  • Disability
  • Traffic in persons
  • Truth justice and reparation
  • Slavery
  • Torture and inhuman treatment
  • Environment
  • Extreme poverty
  • Summary or arbitrary executions
  • Freedom of association
  • Terrorism
  • Right to food
  • Human rights defenders
  • Older persons
  • Mercenaries
  • Transnational corporations
  • Arbitrary detention
  • Right to development
  • Religious intolerance
  • Independence of judiciary
  • Sale of children
  • Adequate housing
  • Right to drinking water
 E F S R C A
Press briefing notes on Turkey 3/23/2021
  • Press Releases
  • Press Briefing Notes
  • Turkey
  • High Commissioner for Human Rights
  • Women
 E F S R C A
Human Rights Council adopts Universal Periodic Review outcomes of Sweden, Grenada, Turkey and Kiribati 9/29/2020
  • Press Releases
  • Sweden
  • Grenada
  • Turkey
  • Kiribati
  • Human Rights Council
  • Universal Periodic Review
  • Human Rights Council
  • Universal Periodic Review
 E F S R C A
Syria: Violations and abuses rife in areas under Turkish-affiliated armed groups – Bachelet 9/18/2020
  • Press Releases
  • Syrian Arab Republic
  • Turkey
  • High Commissioner for Human Rights
 E F S R C A
Turkish human rights lawyer dies after hunger strike 9/2/2020
  • Press Releases
  • Turkey
  • Sp. Rapporteur on freedom of expression
  • Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
  • Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism
  • Sp. Rapporteur on independence of judges and lawyers
  • Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • Sp. Rapporteur on summary executions
  • Sp. Rapporteur on torture
  • Sp. Rapporteur on violence against women
  • WG on Arbitrary Detention
  • Human rights defenders
  • Summary or arbitrary executions
  • Freedom of association
  • Freedom of opinion and expression
  • Torture and inhuman treatment
  • Terrorism
  • Independence of judiciary
  • Violence against women
  • Women
  • Arbitrary detention
 E F S R C A
UN experts: Turkey should preserve Hagia Sophia as space for meeting of cultures 7/31/2020
  • Press Releases
  • Turkey
  • Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights
  • Sp. Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief
  • Cultural rights
  • Religious intolerance
 E F S R C A
Press briefing note on Turkey 7/28/2020
  • Press Briefing Notes
  • Press Releases
  • Turkey
  • High Commissioner for Human Rights
 E F S R C A
Turkey: UN expert alarmed by prosecution’s call for guilty verdict for Istanbul 10 and Taner Kılıç 7/2/2020
  • Press Releases
  • Turkey
  • Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
  • Human rights defenders
 E F S R C A
       
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