Yakın Ertürk: Fighting Violence against Women in Peace and War

In her speech at Sabancı University on October 16, 2015, Yakın Ertürk discussed the issue of violence against women as a violation of human rights and said that violence targeted women both in war and in peace. She argued that violence against women was fed from the same source as other forms of violence, and that violence began when mechanisms of persuasion collapsed. Ertürk indicated that laws were important because they laid the basis for women's struggle, and pointed out that while the CEDAW Convention had been prepared, violence against women had been the item that women struggled the most to have it included in the convention. Ertürk said that the gap has been closed in the 90s and a provision on violence had been included in the 1992 recommendations of the CEDAW Committee.