Partnership Network
to Prevent Violence
Against Children
It consists of NGOs that cooperate to strengthen the monitoring role of civil society in preventing violence against children. The purpose of the Partnership Network is to facilitate and support rights-based monitoring and advocacy activities of national or local civil society organizations, universities and professional organizations working for the benefit of children geared to preventing violence against children in Turkey.
Istanbul Convention
Monitoring Platform
Turkey
It is the platform formed by various women and LGBTI+ organizations struggling for the implementation of “The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence” known as the Istanbul Convention, in which Turkey is the first member State to ratify.
Women's
Coalition
Turkey
Women’s Coalition is a platform of independent women’s organizations organized at local and national levels to increase women’s social and political participation, and to ensure a policy practice targeting equality and justice against existing politics fed by the discrimination based on power and violence. The aim of the Women’s Coalition is to ensure women’s equal participation in all spheres of social, economic and political life, and therefore to ensure their participation in decision-making processes regarding the equal distribution of resources.
The Coalition for
Sexual & Bodily Rights
in Muslim Societies
The Coalition for Sexual & Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies (CSBR) is an award winning international solidarity network that supports the integration of a holistic approach to sexual and bodily rights as human rights across Muslim societies, through feminist knowledge-building, strategic meetings, and strengthening activists’ capacities and resources.
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Platform Turkey
(CISU Platform)
CISU Platform operated as “Cairo +20 and Sustainable Development Targets Platform” between 2013 and 2018. Platform has reactivated its activities as of February 2020 within the scope of the project “Strengthening the Reproductive Rights and Health Platform in Turkey” as a part of the Support to Civil Society Networks and Platforms Program of the Delegation of the European Union to Turkey (EUD Turkey). The platform consists of non-governmental organizations and individual members working in the fields of sexual and reproductive health, family planning, women’s health, public health, gender equality, sexual orientation and gender identity, sexually transmitted infections, disabilities, asylum seekers and refugees, youth studies and field of law.
Women’s
Platform
for Equality
Women’s Platform for Equality is a platform created to protect the rights acquired in many areas, and struggling against particularly the attacks on women’s right to alimony, against amnesty requests for perpetrators of child abuse and now against Turkey’s annulling its ratification in the Istanbul Convention. It comprises more than 310 women’s and LGBTI+ organizations that have been struggling in these fields for a long time, and are supported by more than 150 other NGOs, trade associations and trade unions.
The Law
for
Life Initiative
The Law for Life Initiative is a solidarity initiative established with the aim of promoting the demand for justice for animals, forming a broader public opinion and raising social awareness in the light of the fundamental principles and demands. It aims to grow and empower this solidarity to shape the agenda of legislators in a way that will bring justice to animals with the Animal Protection Law, the improvement of which has been raised in every legislative period since 2012.
