Evaluation of Istanbul convention : its contributions and constraints for elimination of violence against women in Turkey

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Kaymaz Bahçeci, Şehnaz
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With 2011 womens movement in Turkey has a new tool for combating violence against women in their hands; Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, a.k.a. the Istanbul Convention. The Convention will add several new tools to the ones used by the womens movement in Turkey since 1980s.
Women's rights, Women, Women, Victims of family violence
http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614897/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/21854
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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Ş. Kaymaz Bahçeci, “Evaluation of Istanbul convention : its contributions and constraints for elimination of violence against women in Turkey,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2012.
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