Seven human rights-sensitive duyarlı women will take to the theater stage to raise awareness farkında olma of the issues via the stories of seven women who struggled mücadele etmek for human rights in society.
In the play, titled "Yedi' (Seven), journalist-writer Ece Temelkuran will play Nigerian democracy defender Hafsat Abiola, while the lawyer of assassinated öldürülen Armenian journalist Hırant Dink, Fethiye Çetin, will play North Irish activist Inez McCormack. Other women in the play are Turkish artists Lale Mansur, Füsün Demirel, Zeynep Eronat, Belçim Bilgin Erdoğan and Şevval Sam.
The play will make its Turkish premiere gala today at 8 p.m. at the Muammer Karaca Theater. Entrance to the play is free.
Swedish İsveç national theater Riksteatern's producer Figen Solmaz said the play, which is supported by the Swedish Institute and the Swedish Consulate General, would be staged within içinde the framework yapı of a conference on human trafficking ticaret, kaçakçılık and women's rights that will be held in Istanbul.
"This play has been staged all around the world for a few years and we wanted Turkish people to see it, too. This is why we have chosen seven women who are sensitive to democracy and human rights,' Solmaz said.
She said the seven women, famous among Turkish people, agreed with the project and gave great support to it. "Turkey is perceived algılamak by Western countries as an underdeveloped country in terms of açısından women's rights. The best side of this play is that it shows that women's rights is not only a problem for underdeveloped countries, but also is a common problem for all women in the world.'
Activists in the play
Fethiye Çetin plays Inez McCormack, who is an activist for women's and human rights,labor çalışma, and social justice dürüstlük and a former president of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. McCormack played a critical role in the 1998 Good Friday Peace Accords and continues to advocate savunmak for equal rights and fair adil labor practices for women and minorities.
Belçim Bilgin Erdoğan plays Muktharan Mai, who was gang çete raped tecavüz etmek by four men and forced to walk home almost naked. Instead of taking the traditional Pakistani women's route yol of committing suicide intihar etmek, Mai brought her rapists to justice, built schools to improve the condition of women, and became an advocate for education in her country.
Şevval Sam plays Farida Azizi, who became an activist fighting against marginalization yabancılaştırma of women under Taliban rule in her native country. Because of threats tehlike on her life, she gained asylum barınak and now lives in the United States with her two children and works on women's rights and peace building in Afghanistan.
Füsun Demirel plays Mu Sochua, who was co-nominated in 2005 for the Nobel Peace Prize for her work against sex trafficking of women in Cambodia and neighboring Thailand.
Ece Temelkuran plays Hafsat Abiola, an advocate savunucu for human rights and democracy following the murder cinayet of her activist parents. She founded kurmak the Kudirat Initiative for Democracy, which provides sağlamak skills training and leadership opportunities for young women across Nigeria.
Zeynep Eronat plays Marina Pisklakova-Parker, who founded one of the first hotlines for victims kurban of domestic ailevi violence in Russia, which has since grown into the Center ANNA, part of a coalition koalisyon that has provided crisis and counsel danışmak services for 100,000 Russian women.
Lale Mansur plays Annabella De Leon, who has been a congresswoman since 1995 and has received almak death threats because of her fight against corruption çürüme; ahlaksızlık and for the rights of the poor, particularly women and indigenous yerli peoples.