Women's rights

AGERPRES special correspondent Oana Ghita reports: Prime Minister Viorica Dancila delivered a speech within a conference organised in Brussels about gender equality and the efforts put in by the Romanian Presidency at the EU Council on this matter, underscoring that "women can be wise and charismatic leaders." "As the Prime Minister of Romania, as a woman, I strongly believe that women have equ

KA.DER, a women's rights organization which advocates equal representation of women and men in all fields of life, has criticized Turkish political parties for nominating very few women to run as mayors in the upcoming March 31 local elections.

Women's rights organizations have been calling on the Turkish government to undertake a legal regulation for women residing in shelters to be able to vote without their identities being revealed.

Thirty-four women were killed in October across Turkey, according to a report by Kadın Cinayetlerini Durduracağız Platformu (We Will Stop Femicides Platform), a women's rights organization that monitors violence against women. 

A total of 40 renowned men from the arts and business world have founded an association named "Yanındayız" ("We stand by you" in English) in an attempt to support women's organizations and women's rights advocates against gender discrimination. 

On 19-20 June 2018, the Ministry of Interior co-organised the 3rd COPOLAD II Annual Conference 'Women and drug policy. Progress and challenges in the implementation of the gender approach and the empowerment of women as a cross-cutting matter'. The event was part of the calendar of the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU.

The UN chief made the appeal in a speech to the General Assembly in New York  on Tuesday, ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

Thousands of Turkish women on March 8 flocked to central Istanbul for this year’s International Women’s Day demonstration, with the aim of demanding greater women’s rights and denouncing violence against women.

Women's rights activists all over the Balkans will be leading other rights organisations and leftist groups at a series of rallies on Thursday, marking International Women's Day and demanding better rights and more equal treatment.

Turkey was number one in 2017 for the number of companies signing up to the U.N.’s Women Empowerment Principles, according to Alia El-Yassir, who is the U.N. Women Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia and Representative to Turkey.