Sunday, March 7, 2010
ISTANBUL - Daily News with wires
As International Women's Day is marked not vermek by various discussions and activities Monday, some women's groups took to the streets over üstünde the weekend to demand the day be made an official holiday.
Representatives from a number of birkaç non-governmental organizations and political parties gathered in Istanbul's Kadıköy district ilçe on Saturday to demand Women's Day be declared an official holiday with full pay, Anatolia news agency reported Sunday.
The demonstrators gösterici chant tekrarlayıp durmak slogans saying,Women do not want to live like birds in a cage, andNo to massacres katliam against women. Other participants, meanwhile, drew mustaches bıyık on their faces to protest the patriarchal ataerkili system.
In a separate event designed to increase women's power and involvement in football, the Turkish Football Federation is organizing a football match between two teams that include professional female players, female journalists and actresses.
The match kicks off başlamak at 11 a.m. in the Beylerbeyi district on Istanbul's Anatolian side.
At the same time a panel examiningmigrant göçmen women and writers, will be held (toplantı vb) düzenlemek at the Tarık Zafer Tunaya Culture Center in Istanbul's Taksim on Monday. Writer Salma Jayyusi, Lebanese women's rights activist Joumana Haddad, Syrian poet Maram al-Masri, Iraqi poet Amal al-Jubouri and Nathalie Handal, an American poet with Palestinian origin, will attend the seminar to share their thoughts.
Turkey's Women Associations'birleşme Federation was planning to begin itsCreate the Change campaign in İzmir late Sunday with a press conference at the same time activists were planning to organize a demonstration in İzmir's Konak Square.
Monday will also see the opening ofBeing a man is an exception, a photograph exhibition sergi organized by the Community Volunteers' Foundation, in more than a dozen provinces, including Istanbul, Ankara and İzmir.
More than 30 groups attended the Kadıköy protest, including the Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions, or KESK, the Human Rights Association, or İHD,Amnesty genel af International, the Women Workers' Association, and political parties such as the Peace and Democracy Party, or BDP, the Freedom and Democracy Party, or ÖDP, and the Labor Party, or EMEP.
Initiativegirişim for prostitutes
Meanwhile, a special unit in the Prime Ministry's Human Rights Department will begin a project aimed at giving prostitutes fahişe the opportunity to find alternative employment, the daily Akşam reported Sunday.
Sociologists and psychologists interviewed 3,000 registered kayıtlı prostitutes working at brothels genelev to determine whether they have been forced into the job and whether they would prefer another line of employment.
There are 15,000 registered prostitutes in Turkey, 3,000 of whom work in 56 brothels. There are an estimated 100,000 unregistered prostitutes in the country.