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1. UN WOMEN - Phumzile Mlambo , Executive Director of UN Women Twitter: @phumzileunwomen Mailing Address: CSW Communications Procedure Human Rights Section UN Women 220 East 42nd Street, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10017 USA E-mail: cp-csw@unwomen.org Phone: +1 646 781-4400 | Fax: +1 646 781-4444 | Official Website: www.unwomen.org - Europe and Central Asia Regional Office Mailing Address: Abide-i Hürriyet Cad. İstiklal Sok., No:11 KEY Plaza Kat:8, 34381 Şişli, İstanbul, TURKEY E-mail: eca.operations@unwomen.org | Website: eca.unwomen.org 2. UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL (UN HRC) Twitter: @UN_HRC | Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UNHRC Civil Society Section Phone Number: +41 22 917 9656 | E-mail: civilsociety@ohchr.org 3. COMMISSION ON SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE, U.S. HELSINKI COMMISSION Mailing Address: 234 Ford House Office Building, 3rd and D Streets SW, Washington, DC 20515 Phone: 202-225-1901 |...

1. Case of Nesibe Ozer Nesibe Özer, Head of the 2nd Chamber of the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) was detained during the rst days after the attempted coup for alleged links to the Hizmet movement. According to her lawyer on September 9 she was placed in solitary con nement in the Bakırköy Prison in Istanbul. Özer began a hunger strike on September 27 to protest the solitary con nement and the lack of a response to her petition.  2. Case of A.B. On October 14, 2016, the prisoner A.B., a kidney patient, was se- verely beaten and dragged into her cell by prison guards while she was having a phone conversation with her mother. She was subsequently sent to the in rmary where she was referred to a general hospital. According to the daily newspaper that rst revealed the case, A.B. was still being held in Silivri prison by the end of October 2016, despite her continuous bleeding.  3. Case o...

As you are aware, recent reports from the Journalist and Writers Foundation in Turkey and the Stockholm Center for Freedom have estimated the number of women in Turkish prisons is a staggering 17,000 along with over 660 children. Official records indicate that 23 percent of these children are infants less than a year old. Dr. Alan Mendoza, executive director of the Henry Jackson Society (a British foreign policy think tank) said “prison is no place for children in any civilized country”. These reports have questioned the basis for the detainment and imprisonment of these women, as well as the timing of their arrests, in some cases shortly after giving birth. Many of these women have been held without charges being pressed and without access to legal representation, and in some cases, access to their family. Reports from within Turkey have shown images of security officials waiting outside hospital rooms for mothers to be discharged in order to detain them and their newborn c...

1. Hundreds of Young Turkish Children Jailed Alongside Their Moms as Part of a Post-Coup Crackdown Feb. 13, 2018 Turkey’s Justice Ministry provided a somewhat lower figure,  stating  that a total of 560 children under the age of 6 were being held in Turkish prisons along with their mothers. Mothers and their children continue to be rounded up with tens of thousands of other Turks following the July 2016 coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The country has, since that attempt, been in a legal “state of emergency,” one that allows the government to jail anyone believed to have ties to  exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen and his Hizmet movement. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/02/13/hundreds-young-turkish-children-jailed-alongside-their-moms-as-part-post-coup-crackdown.html   #Turkey #humanrights #foxnews #jailedmothers #jailedwomen #internationalnews #15July2016 #coupattempt #prison #un #HizmetMovement 

1. Report on the impact of the state of emergency on human rights in Turkey, including an update on the South-East http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/TR/2018-03-19_Second_OHCHR_Turkey_Report.pdf   March 2018 / (29 Pages) The present report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) provides an overview of key human rights concerns in Turkey in the period between January and December 2017, with a focus on the consequences of the state of emergency on the enjoyment of human rights. The findings of OHCHR point to a constantly deteriorating human rights situation, exacerbated by the erosion of the rule of law. OHCHR notes with concern that the emergency decrees foster impunity and lack of accountability by affording legal, administrative, criminal and financial immunity to administrative authorities acting within the framework of the decrees. 2. Women’s Rights Under Attack in Turkey  http://jwf.org/wp-content/upl...