Yakin Ertürk was the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women (SRVAW) 2003-2009, and until recently Professor of Sociology at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. She also undertook numerous international assignments, including as a member of the International Independent Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic by the UNHRC (Sept 2011- March 2012). She is a member of the Board of the Asylum and Migration Research Center in Ankara, and served on the Council of Europe, Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT).
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Published in: 50.50A move to set free child sex abusers: in the name of “our culture”Recent law reform initiatives on sexual crimes against children in Turkey reveal the growing danger for women and...
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Published in: 50.50Global Femicide WatchDubravka Šimonović, the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, explains to Yakin Erturk why she is calling...
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Published in: 50.50Ghana: women at war in a country at peaceThe absence of war does not necessarily imply peace for women. The binary opposites of war and peace obscure the...
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Published in: 50.50The missing link in women's human rightsGender incompetent policies and hierarchical understandings of rights dominate global economic governance...
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Published in: 50.50Iran: a 'bloody stain' on the nationThe war on women continues to manifest itself in different forms and intensity globally; tarnishing all societies...
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Published in: 50.50Due diligence for women's human rights: transgressing conventional linesOn international human rights day, Yakin Ertürk discusses the new vulnerabilities faced by women, including refugee...