After Istanbul: Women’s Rights and Human Rights in Turkey

During the pandemic, violence against women and girls increased in Latin American countries. At this cooperation event, experts from Amnesty International and GIGA will discuss the scope of gender-based violence, the involvement of civil society and the responsibility of the state. The event will be held in Spanish with simultaneous translation into German.

At the Global Solutions Summit 2022, GIGA expert Prof. Dr. Merike Blofield will present her policy brief on a global universal basic income for children. The summit, which brings government representatives together with researchers, is considered an important forum for research-based political consultation.

In the wider Middle East, Turkey is aiming to recover from its diminished status as a regional power. The GIGA Talk will investigate these domestic and regional dynamics to better assess and anticipate Turkey’s likely political futures.

The authors of this paper argue that building programmatic linkages between social protection platforms, particularly cash transfers, and IPV prevention, mitigation, and response services, creates synergies that can promote freedom from both poverty and violence.

Although known as a host and transit country, Turkey today is in the midst of its fifth wave of emigration as a result of the country’s authoritarian and economic challenges. From asylum seekers to wealthy businesspeople, many seek to leave Erdoğan’s Turkey to make a fresh start elsewhere.

With the pandemic, the risk of violence against women and children, especially within the home, increased further as people sheltered at home at the same time that they faced great financial and emotional stress. The authors of this GIGA Focus assess government efforts to address and treat gender-based violence.

To what extent and how do populist leaders politicise foreign policy? Sandra Destradi, Johannes Plagemann, and Hakkı Taş find interesting differences between the public discourses of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic the risk of gender-based violence, especially within the home, has further increased. Governments around the world are addressing this problem quite differently. In this GIGA Forum/GIGA Talk, experts will discuss the effect of related government responses and offer policy recommendations.

During the pandemic, violence against women and girls increased in Latin American countries. At this cooperation event, experts from Amnesty International and GIGA will discuss the scope of gender-based violence, the involvement of civil society and the responsibility of the state. The event will be held in Spanish with simultaneous translation into German.

At the Global Solutions Summit 2022, GIGA expert Prof. Dr. Merike Blofield will present her policy brief on a global universal basic income for children. The summit, which brings government representatives together with researchers, is considered an important forum for research-based political consultation.

In the wider Middle East, Turkey is aiming to recover from its diminished status as a regional power. The GIGA Talk will investigate these domestic and regional dynamics to better assess and anticipate Turkey’s likely political futures.