CSW61 Wednesday, March 15 2017

[Anonymous]

Report submitted by Susan Russell, CFUW

Today I met a young Turkish journalist who had been given 24 hours to leave Turkey. He told me his version of what is happening there:

After the failed coup of July 2016 the UN Committee on CEDAW raised serious concerns about women In Turkey:

– Absense of comprehensicve health care
– National law on violence against women
– Lack of provision of health services and maternity health in prisons
– Discrimination against Adisadvantaged minority groups including Kurdish women
– Women in labour taken into custody
Torture of women who have been detained or arrested
– Arrest of women while they visit their husbands are in jail
– Denial of treatment of purged women

Other issues include schools, universities and dormitories shut down 2,099
Arrested 46,875
Detained 94,224
Sacked 128.624
Academics lost jobs 7,316
Judges, prosecutors dismissed
Media outlet shut down 146
Journalists arrested 162

Since July 2016

Based on official news sources and the concluding observations on the 7th periodic report of Turkey CEDAW/C/TUR/CO/7

Check the website at http://www.turkeypurge.com

The young man to whom I spoke talked of horrendous human rights violations against women. He is now based in NY.

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