Essays about: "Istanbul Convention"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 16 essays containing the words Istanbul Convention.

  1. 6. We are here, we don’t fear Feminists counteracting legitimizing myths and authoritarian practices in Turkey to end violence against women

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

    Author : Sofie Karlsson; [2022]
    Keywords : Feminist mobilization; violence against women; Turkey; legitimizing myths; Authoritarianism; Social Sciences; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Previous literature suggests that the republic of Turkey is transforming from a democracy to an authoritarian country under Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi’s rule. The Turkish government has introduced and implemented a series of events that organizes around the supreme power of the President - one major being the withdrawal from the Istanbul convention. READ MORE

  3. 7. Femicides in Turkey : Understanding Femicides through the Social, Political, and Gendered Context

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för tema

    Author : Gül Akbal; [2021]
    Keywords : femicides; gender-based violence; discourse theory; critical discourse analysis; intersectionality; Turkey; decoloniality; resistance strategies;

    Abstract : Turkey and its authoritarian policies are in the headlines: the topic of Syrian refugees and the EU – Turkey deal, gross human rights violations, repression against opposition parties, and last but not least the withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention in March 2021. Heavy protests of feminist activist groups are demanding the end of gender-based violence and femicide. READ MORE

  4. 8. Turkish Yoke, Red Vampires, and Euro-Genderists: Strategies of de/legitimization in the debate around the Istanbul Convention in Bulgaria

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Jullietta Stoencheva; [2021]
    Keywords : Critical Discourse Analysis; anti-gender movements; discursive strategies; de legitimization; architectures and affordances; Facebook; social media; Bulgaria; online activism; Istanbul Convention;

    Abstract : In July 2018, Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court rejected the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (better known as the Istanbul Convention). This rejection came following a wave of civic activism, which scholars characterized as the first anti-gender campaign in Bulgaria. READ MORE

  5. 9. The Necessity of a Broader Discussion on Domestic Violence - An European Legislative View : A legal analysis of the Directive 2012/29/EU, The European Convention on Human Rights, United Nations Declaration on Elimination of Violence against Women and the Istanbul Convention on Violence Against Women

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Lorrayne Tentoni; [2020]
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    Abstract : Domestic Violence and Gender Violence impact every society on many different layers, loss of capability of work, traumas, and economical losses are amongst the most talked issues. Domestic Violence is not exclusively a violence in which the perpetrator is a male and the victim is a female and they live as a married couple. READ MORE

  6. 10. Men as victims and invisible women : The link between destructive male norms and violence. A discourse analysis of Machofabriken 2.0

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS)

    Author : Ann Birging; [2020]
    Keywords : violence prevention; men’s violence against women; men as victims; triad of men’s violence; destructive masculinities; invisible women; Women’s Human Rights; Istanbul convention; gender equality;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study was to examine Machofabriken 2.0 through discourse analysis.Examine how concepts are filled with meaning and what alternative meanings that are excluded. Ialso scrutinized what pedagogic tools and strategies put forward to achieve change and discuss ifit is possible to approach ordinary men as violent. READ MORE