Four civil society organisations awarded grants to increase women’s legal awareness in Turkey

In just the framework of the European Union and Council of Europe joint programme “Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey 2019-2022” and its action “Fostering women’s entry to justice in Turkey”, the Council of Europe launched a call for CSOs for their assignments proposals focusing on assist and empowering ladies as legal rights-holders, particularly individuals from vulnerable and disadvantaged teams, these types of as gals victims of violence and refugee women of all ages. In this scope, 4 proposals of well-set up and professional civil society organisations (CSOs) have been selected to present money guidance for their initiatives to boost awareness and legal literacy amongst women of all ages to declare their rights and accessibility to justice and solutions as equivalent citizens.

The picked CSOs and their initiatives are as follows:

1- Soroptimist Intercontinental (SI) of Turkey – Türkiye Soroptimist Kulupleri (İş ve Meslek Kadınları Dernekleri) Federasyonu:

The proposal submitted by this federation aims to increase women’s lawful literacy in a few most important themes: women’s human legal rights and combating gender-primarily based violence women’s economic legal rights and family regulation. 500 females in 8 provinces (Adana, Ankara, Bursa, Denizli, Eskişehir, Hatay, İstanbul, İzmir, Mersin and Zonguldak) will be provided gamified training (impressive training programmes as a result of video games) and session classes to provide lawful facts to gals about their rights and offered justice mechanisms to establish their legal literacy. A authorized literacy marketing campaign will also be done by way of social media with posts and videos.

2- The Basis for Women’s Solidarity (FWS) – Kadın Dayanışma Vakfı:

The Foundation’s proposal focuses on escalating the capability of Girls Counselling Centre (WCC) of the Basis to deliver help and facts to girls victims of violence and on empowering a nationwide network of attorneys for advancing their efforts to rework the legal help program towards a gender-responsive, accessible, and trusted provider for females in susceptible cases.

3- The Association of Solidarity with Syrian Refugees in Izmir – İzmir’de Suriyeli Mültecilerle Dayanışma Derneği:

The proposal aims to raise the legal literacy and lawful recognition of refugee women — who are amid the susceptible females group — by capacity making and awareness raising actions, together with progress of a cellular application, site, and their content in the languages of target women (Turkish and Arabic), podcasts, movies and a handbook.

4- Flying Broom Basis – Uçan Süpürge Vakfı:

The proposal concentrating on escalating awareness among younger legal experts, and culture in basic about the girls’ accessibility to justice, challenges and existing boundaries through ability growth activities and electronic media marketing campaign.

All above-talked about consciousness elevating routines are planned to be carried by the CSOs between April and November 2022.

This grant programme is furnished within just the framework of the action “Fostering women’s obtain to justice in Turkey” becoming applied under the joint European Union and Council of Europe programme “Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey 2019-2022”.