İHD
NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2021 Digest
10.11.2021: EuroMed Rights issued a statement on the migrants stranded at the EU-Belarus border underlining the necessity that migrants and refugees must no longer be an instrument of pressure in a logic of blackmail.
12.11.2021: İHD released a statement on the refugees stranded at the Belarus-Poland border calling on the authorities to put an end to gross human rights violations against the refugees.
https://ihd.org.tr/en/ihd-statement-on-the-refugees-stranded-at-the-belarus-poland-border/
20.11.2021: İHD issued a statement on the occasion of the 32nd anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child calling on the Turkish state to urgently take measures in order to comply with its obligations set forth in the Convention.
https://ihd.org.tr/en/ihd-statement-on-the-rights-of-the-child/
22.11.2021: An article by İHD’s co-chairperson, Öztürk Türkdoğan, entitled “12 September 1980 Military Coup Trial Is Pending” was translated into English.
https://ihd.org.tr/en/article-12-september-1980-military-coup-trial-is-pending/
23.11.2021: Human rights organizations issued a joint statement saying that they stood in solidarity with Saturday Mothers, who have not been allowed to hold their peaceful vigils in the memory of their disappeared children, reiterating their call for the acquittal of all 46 persons standing trial.
25.11.2021: İHD Women’s Commission issued a statement on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women calling for the reinstatement of the Istanbul Convention.
29.11.2021: An article by İHD’s former chairperson, Hüsnü Öndül, entitled “State of Emergency Dismissals Are a Legacy of September 12” was translated into English.
https://ihd.org.tr/en/article-state-of-emergency-dismissals-are-a-legacy-of-september-12/
09.12.2021: İHD and HRFT issued a joint statement on the occasion of 10 December Human Rights Day appended with a report on human rights violations in 2021 in Turkey.
https://ihd.org.tr/en/ihd-hrft-statement-on-human-rights-day/
09.12.2021: SOHRAM CASRA, CISST, TOHAV, İHD, HRFT and OMCT Europe issued a joint statement underlining the fact that torture continues to be widespread and remains one of the most worrying human rights problems in Turkey.
30.12.2021: İHD issued a special report on enforced statements, interviews, informant-making efforts and abductions through coercion and threats in 2021.