law

12:11

The Turkish Constitutional Court has rejected the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) request for the postponement of the party’s closure case until the upcoming elections are over.

07:52

For years, some Libyan laws, particularly the Family Law, have been raising concern about women's rights and human rights.

10:00

Since the beginning of “Jina Mahsa Amini” protests, many activists and protesters have been arrested by Iranian security forces. In custody, they are subjected to many inhuman practices. Some of them told us their stories.

15:00

“The adoption of the Moroccan Family Code is an important step for women; however, it still causes a series of problems leading discrimination, injustice and inequality,” Moroccan Lawyer Aisha Qalaa said, calling for the reform of the family code.

09:55

Seda Zengin, member of the Lawyers Association for Freedom (ÖHD), pointed to the rights violations against political prisoners in Turkiye and said, “The Ministry of Justice is responsible for violations in prisons.”

09:26

An armored police vehicle hit and killed seven-year-old Miraç Miroğlu. The child has been found “primary negligent” by the report prepared by the Turkish Council of Forensic Medicine (ATK).

12:31

The Iranian authorities keep issuing prison sentences against protesters in an attempt to crack down on the nationwide protests.

09:21

A Turkish court has approved an indictment seeking a prison sentence for documentary filmmaker Sibel Tekin. The first hearing of the trial will be held on February 23.

08:00

Women face gender discrimination in all spheres of life, including in the judiciary. Elif Tirenç İpek Ulaş, lawyer and board member of the Rosa Women’s Association, said, “Judgments pave the way for femicide.”

09:00

11 years have passed since the Roboski Massacre. “Since the law enforcement in Turkey has been protected, many rights violations have been committed in Roboski,” lawyer Reyhan Yalçındağ Baydemir said.

14:00

The Iranian regime has sentenced two women in the province of Sistan and Baluchestan province and one woman in the city of Behbahan to four months in prison and 74 lashes.

09:00

Stating that they received more than a thousand applications from women victims of physical violence in the city in a year, Esmer Özer, member of the Women Rights Center of the Diyarbakır Bar Association said, “Our most basic principle is to defend women'

08:50

The news about the marriage of the six-year-old daughter of Yusuf Ziya Gümüşel, the founder of the Hiranur Foundation reminds the Lanzarote Convention. Lawyer Şükran Eroğlu says the international conventions are more than a signature.

15:10

Law 103-13 on the Elimination of Violence against Women in Morocco was passed in February 2018. However, the law has not been effectively implemented.

15:00

Zenûbiya Women’s Association member Muna Ewêd said the aim of the association is to fight violence against women in Hajin and Deir ez-Zor by “providing psychological and financial support to women victims of violence and empower them.”

08:25

An indictment has been prepared against Cemil Eser, who tried to kill his wife, on charges of “Attempting to kill” his wife.

13:48

Mala Jin is a women’s organization based in North and East Syria. Since it was founded on November 25, 2016, it has carried out activities to protect women from violence.

13:10

Activists think that child marriage is child rape legitimated by the law and society and that this phenomenon has increased especially in recent years due to poverty, ignorance, war and turmoil.

12:31

Child marriage rates have increased in Yemen, which suffer from a civil war since 2015, and a deteriorating economic situation, particularly in villages where girls are not allowed to complete their education.

13:03

Free Women's Movement (TJA) Term Spokesperson Ayşe Gökkan shouted the slogan “Jin jiyan azadî” during the first hearing of the retrial against her as a response.