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“The Bamboo Tree Is Our Inspiration”

“The Bamboo Tree Is Our Inspiration”

05 Mayıs 2021

A two-week summer festival organized by Bambu Gönüllü Eğitim Platformu, which provides free online private courses to approximately a thousand students with more than 400 volunteers within 8 months, has started. The founder Akın Günaydın, who said that the difficult growth story of the bamboo tree inspired them, notes that their goal is to address inequalities in the field of Education.

Civil Society in National Media: ‘Invisible or Decorative Items’

Civil Society in National Media: ‘Invisible or Decorative Items’

05 Mayıs 2021

Civil Society is still a ‘decorative item’ in national media content and coverage, despite a relative increase in its visibility, finds 'Representation of CSOs in National Media: Media Analysis' report of YADA Foundation.

Youth’s ‘Wall of Despair’

Youth’s ‘Wall of Despair’

05 Mayıs 2021

‘[Turkey’s] youth demand utterances that would offer solutions to their problems,’ I would have liked to say but sadly this article argues that in fact there isn’t such hope left within them. Bigger dreams and expectations in a failing economy with a failing job market in a failing system were indeed doomed for such desolation.

‘Environment and Climate Crisis is a Public Health Crisis’

‘Environment and Climate Crisis is a Public Health Crisis’

05 Mayıs 2021

28 coal power plants, of 100+ MW-capacity each, led to 3,070 premature births and 4,818 early deaths in Turkey in 2019, due to air pollution they caused.

Official Audit Clampdown on CSOs

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Official Audit Clampdown on CSOs

03 Mayıs 2021

Government inspections on non-governmental organizations in Turkey are ramped up following recent provisions of a law raising government suppression over civil society organizations. International funds and grants are reported to be the focus.

LGBTI+ Families: ‘LGBTI+ Have Become Scapegoats!’

LGBTI+ Families: ‘LGBTI+ Have Become Scapegoats!’

27 Nisan 2021

“LGBTI+ children also have the right to “equality and dignity in life,” Nedime Erdoğan, mother of one and the president of Ankara Rainbow Families Association, says.

Rights Advocates Demand Concrete Measures

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Rights Advocates Demand Concrete Measures

01 Nisan 2021

Civil Pages discussed the government's Human Rights Action Plan announced in early March with Hülya Gülbahar from Equality Watch Women's Group, Mehmet Arif Koçer from the Rights Initiative, and Tarık Beyhan from Amnesty International, who emphasized that domestic law already has certain positive elements, especially ECHR resolutions -as mentioned in the action plan-, and that the government must instead take concrete measures to be credible.

Law has not Become the Solution but the Source of Environmental Problems

Law has not Become the Solution but the Source of Environmental Problems

01 Nisan 2021

According to the "The Legal Transformation of 2020 in Parallel with Ecological, Economic and Political Crises" issued by the Association for Rights and Research, law in Turkey has become the source rather than solution to many problems including environmental ones, as the state has turned into a market actor, citizenship has been redefined, and principles of private law have tended to replace public law due to various legislative changes.

The Animal Rights Bill and Unanswered Questions

The Animal Rights Bill and Unanswered Questions

01 Nisan 2021

The debate on the animal rights bill has been going on for quite a while. Although for years there has been public pressure on the government to pass a law protecting animals' right to life, since 2004 we have witnessed only efforts at diversion, and legislation bringing about animals' death.

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