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Save the International Criminal Court and the rule of law

Posted on 1 Ekim 202513 Ekim 2025

2025 Press Releases , International Human Rights Mechanisms , Press Releases

PRESS RELEASE International Justice Day – 17 July Let Us Be the Global Voice for Justice!

Posted on 17 Temmuz 202529 Temmuz 2025

2025 Press Releases , International Human Rights Mechanisms , Press Releases

Oppose Sanctions Against the International Criminal Court, Safeguard Victims’ Access to Justice

Posted on 28 Ocak 202528 Ocak 2025

Press Releases

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Save the International Criminal Court and the rule of law

Posted on 1 Ekim 202513 Ekim 2025

23 September 2025 (HRAA Signature 1 October 2025) For original text: https://coalitionfortheicc.org/news/save-international-criminal-court-and-rule-law Reliable sources indicate that the United States (US) plans to sanction the...

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PRESS RELEASE International Justice Day – 17 July Let Us Be the Global Voice for Justice!

Posted on 17 Temmuz 202529 Temmuz 2025

PRESS RELEASE International Justice Day – 17 July Let Us Be the Global Voice for Justice! 17 July marks a historic turning point for...

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Law and Human

Articles Democracy And Human Rights International Human Rights Mechanisms Women's Human Rights

New Article From HRAA Intern Sasha Antonioli COMPARING FEMICIDES : TURKEY AND THE EUROPEAN UNION

Posted on 12 Haziran 202212 Haziran 2022

COMPARING FEMICIDES : TURKEY AND THE EUROPEAN UNION by Sasha Antonioli This paper seeks to compare femicides between the European Union and Turkey...

Articles Democracy And Human Rights Minority Rights

Turkish government fears compensation claims for Armenian genocide

Posted on 9 Kasım 2019

Orhan Kemal Cengiz Every time a new country is about to recognize the 1915 Armenian genocide, Turkey reacts harshly. Yet its harsh reaction and diplomatic rows have...

Articles Democracy And Human Rights Freedom Of Thought And Expression Rights To Fair Trial

Views of the Human Rights Agenda Association Regarding the First Package under the Judicial Reform Strategy

Posted on 21 Ekim 201921 Ekim 2019

Renovation, Not Reform! Download: hraa jrp1 The views of the Human Rights Agenda Association on the articles included in the first package of amendments to...

Articles Freedom Of Thought And Expression

From June 7 to Nov. 1: Turkey under scrutiny

Posted on 18 Aralık 20154 Şubat 2019

Just over four months ago, my fellows OSCE parliamentarians and I were in Turkeyfor elections that were vibrant, but tainted by restrictions to media freedom and other issues of concern. This...

Articles Freedom Of Thought And Expression

Detention of Tahir Elçi

Posted on 24 Ekim 20154 Şubat 2019

Tahir Elçi, a prominent lawyer and chair of the Diyarbakır Bar Association, was detained last Monday for spreading Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) propaganda. Previously,...

Family and Gender

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New Article From HRAA Intern Sasha Antonioli COMPARING FEMICIDES : TURKEY AND THE EUROPEAN UNION

Posted on 12 Haziran 202212 Haziran 2022

COMPARING FEMICIDES : TURKEY AND THE EUROPEAN UNION by Sasha Antonioli This paper seeks to compare femicides between the European Union and Turkey...

2020 Press Releases Press Releases Sexual Orientation

Targeting and Investigating Organizations That Criticize Hate Speech Against LGBTI+ Must Come to an End

Posted on 30 Nisan 2020

April 30, 2020 In days when Turkey and the world is struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic, we are experiencing extraordinary times with thousands...

Articles Women's Human Rights

Could the İstanbul Convention provide a safe haven for women in Turkey?

Posted on 8 Haziran 201515 Şubat 2019

Violence against women occurs in, and affects a large spectrum of, countries and cultures all over the world, but in recent years it has been...

Articles Women's Human Rights

Origins of violence against women in Turkey

Posted on 23 Şubat 201515 Şubat 2019

We have seen the latter in the insufferable killing of Özgecan Aslan in Tarsus, Mersin. This was the latest case of violence against women,...

Articles Children's Rights

Sympathetic toward death penalty, intolerant of criticism

Posted on 13 Mayıs 20144 Şubat 2019

I was watching Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on TV after a tragic event that took place in Adana. A 4-year-old girl, Gizem, was...

Working Lİfe and Economy

2020 Press Releases Human Rights Defenders Press Releases

TAHİR ELÇİ CASE SHOULD NOT END UP WITH IMPUNITY

Posted on 20 Ekim 202024 Ekim 2020

20 October 2020 Tahir Elçi was murdered 5 years ago. He was a human rights defender who bravely fought for human rights and peace,...

Articles Human Rights Defenders

Farewell, Tahir Elçi

Posted on 4 Aralık 20154 Şubat 2019

I’ve lost a friend I’ll never be able to replace. I’ve lost a piece of my life. And now, for the first time, it...

Articles Human Rights Defenders

Loss of a friend never easy

Posted on 4 Aralık 20154 Şubat 2019

I’m in Diyarbakır to fulfill my last duty to my friend. Tahir Elçi was not only a very good lawyer and a human rights...

Articles Human Rights Defenders

What can we do?

Posted on 18 Kasım 20154 Şubat 2019

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), probably the most bloodthirsty terrorist group ever, hit Paris on Friday night. According to news...

Articles Human Rights Defenders

Being a Human Rights Defender is Really Difficult!

Posted on 29 Haziran 20074 Şubat 2019

29.06.2007 Friday, June 29, 2007, ISTANBUL – Turkish Daily News Orhan Kemal Cengiz Because of my title you might expect me to talk about the harassment,...

Politics and State

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Save the International Criminal Court and the rule of law

Posted on 1 Ekim 202513 Ekim 2025

2025 Press Releases International Human Rights Mechanisms Press Releases

PRESS RELEASE International Justice Day – 17 July Let Us Be the Global Voice for Justice!

Posted on 17 Temmuz 202529 Temmuz 2025

PRESS RELEASE International Justice Day – 17 July Let Us Be the Global Voice for Justice! 17 July marks a historic turning point for...

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Oppose Sanctions Against the International Criminal Court, Safeguard Victims’ Access to Justice

Posted on 28 Ocak 202528 Ocak 2025

The Coalition for the International Criminal Court and more than 140 of its member non-governmental organisations and coalitions from around the globe strongly oppose...

Articles Democracy And Human Rights International Human Rights Mechanisms Women's Human Rights

New Article From HRAA Intern Sasha Antonioli COMPARING FEMICIDES : TURKEY AND THE EUROPEAN UNION

Posted on 12 Haziran 202212 Haziran 2022

COMPARING FEMICIDES : TURKEY AND THE EUROPEAN UNION by Sasha Antonioli This paper seeks to compare femicides between the European Union and Turkey...

Articles International Human Rights Mechanisms

Universal Periodic Review Third Cycle: Human Rights Agenda Association Submission

Posted on 22 Temmuz 201922 Temmuz 2019

UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW THIRD CYCLE – TURKEY Human Rights Agenda Association Submission, İzmir, Turkey International Conventions Republic of Turkey is a state party to...

Identity and Migration

2020 Press Releases Press Releases Refugee, Asylum And Migration

WAR IS NOT A SOLUTION

Posted on 4 Mart 2020

Human Rights Joint Platform JOINT STATEMENT 4 March 2020 WAR IS NOT A SOLUTION We all were concerned that the potential of the civil...

Articles Minority Rights

“Religious Minorities of Turkey” report from Orhan Kemal Cengiz, former president of HRAA

Posted on 3 Şubat 2020

Why can’t Christians open a legally recognized place of worship? Why are Alevi cemevis not recognized by the State? Why are historical churches and...

Articles Democracy And Human Rights Minority Rights

Turkish government fears compensation claims for Armenian genocide

Posted on 9 Kasım 2019

Orhan Kemal Cengiz Every time a new country is about to recognize the 1915 Armenian genocide, Turkey reacts harshly. Yet its harsh reaction and diplomatic rows have...

Articles Discrimination

Kurdophobia

Posted on 1 Eylül 20157 Nisan 2023

Günal Kurşun From time to time, I think about the social roots of the Turkish-Kurdish conflict. It is obvious that there is ongoing discrimination...

Articles Refugee, Asylum And Migration

Mediterranean Sea and Frontex: a deadly war against the weakest

Posted on 8 Haziran 201515 Şubat 2019

In the aftermath of the Lampedusa tragedy of October 2013, more than 360 lifeless bodies were rescued from the waves in what was then...

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Uncertainty and injustice for minority refugees from Iraq – new report

Posted on 28 Eylül 200915 Şubat 2019

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Ian Micallef condemns electoral violence in Turkey

Posted on 30 Mart 200915 Şubat 2019

Press release – 265(2009) Congress President a.i. condemns electoral violence in Turkey Strasbourg, 30.03.2009 – “I condemn the violence which eruptedduring local elections in Turkey on 29 March, leaving...

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Turkey: No improvement in the situation of the conscientious objector despite judgment of the European Court

Posted on 26 Mart 200915 Şubat 2019

Press release – 249(2009) Turkey: No improvement in the situation of the conscientious objector despite judgment of the European Court Strasbourg, 25.03.2009 – The Committee of Ministers last week...

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Combating racism in sports: ECRI’s advice to governments

Posted on 19 Mart 200915 Şubat 2019

Press release – 229(2009) Strasbourg, 19.03.2009 – To mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, on 21 March, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI)...

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