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It is hard to find something more scornful than Erdogan's sudden decision to withdraw Turkey from the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence. The treaty, which is known as the Istanbul Convention, was finalized in Istanbul in 2011, no less, and aims to protect victims, and end impunity for perpetrators of vile acts against women. Erdogan hosted the signing of the treaty, which makes it all the more absurd that he would be the one to withdraw from it-a contemptable move that is surpassed only by his moral insolvency. The EU and the...

Alon Ben-Meir: Erdogan’s misogyny transcends his moral decadence Published Sunday, Apr. 18, 2021, 12:10 am Join AFP's 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes and Spotify News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com Alon Ben-Meir It is hard to find something more scornful than Erdogan’s sudden decision to withdraw Turkey from the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence. The treaty, which is known as the Istanbul Convention, was finalized in I...

April 15, 2021   Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — It is hard to find something more scornful than President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s sudden decision to withdraw Turkey from the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence. The treaty, which is known as the Istanbul Convention, was finalized in Istanbul in 2011, no less, and aims to protect victims, and end impunity for perpetrators of vile acts against women. Erdogan hosted the signing of the treaty, which makes it all the more absurd that he would be the one to withdraw from it—a contemp...

How had Covid affected women and girls around the world? B: This has been a devastating year for women’s rights. Some people find that counterintuitive because more men have died than women, but the impact on women’s lives has been much worse than on men’s. Roughly 1.4 billion kids were sent home from school and many more from childcare, and someone had to look after them and that was overwhelmingly women. Even before Covid, women did 2.5 times as much domestic care work as men. And those kids being out of school fell on women and it pushed millions of women out of the work force.

Further Steps Needed to Promote Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights A woman walks past a mural on a Family Health Options clinic in the Kibera slums in Nairobi, Kenya, May 16, 2017. © 2017 Reuters (Washington, DC) – United States President Joe Biden has issued a presidential memorandum that is an important first step to repair harm to sexual and reproductive health and rights, but more executive and legislative action is needed, Human Rights Watch said today. The memorandum, issued on January 28, 2021, rescinded regressive actions by the administration of former presiden...