[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Our grantee “We will Stop Femicides” (“Kadın Cinayetlerini Durduracağız”) Platform is is a women’s NGO, founded in 2012 as a social reaction to the homicide of Münevver Karabulut, a young woman brutally murdered by her boyfriend, who was aided by his family. The Platform’s main aspiration is to fight against gender-based violence and raise awareness in society about the volume of violence against women (VAW) in Turkey.
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The Platform:
provides legal advocacy in femicide and VAW cases for more than 30 litigation cases each month
issues data on number of femicide events of previous month and details of such homicides, with annual femicide infograms publicised on the Platform’s social media accounts
operates a hot-line through which families of murdered women and women subject to violence apply to seek support of Platform’s legal force and social media influence.
The Platform is organised on a national level in more than 35 cities in Turkey.
“We will Stop Femicides” Platform has been working hard to spread and promote the Istanbul Convention, the landmark treaty of the Council of Europe and the first legally-binding international instrument that “creates a comprehensive legal framework and approach to combat violence against women,” adopting a 3 ‘P’ approach:
Prevention of all forms of VAW
Protection against all forms of VAW
Prosecution of those accused of committing acts of VAW.
A fourth ‘P’ has been introduced into the framework: integrated Policies, aimed at promoting substantive equality between women and men in addition to tackling VAW through criminal law and proceedings.
The Convention characterises violence against women as a violation of human rights and a form of discrimination. States that ratify the Convention must criminalise VAW offences including psychological violence, stalking, physical violence, sexual violence, including rape, explicitly covering all engagement in non-consensual acts of a sexual nature with a person, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, forced abortion and forced sterilisation. The Convention states that sexual harassment must be subject to “criminal or other legal sanctions” and also includes an article targeting crimes committed in the name of so-called “honour.”[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
