CSID Monthly Lecture Series:
The Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy (CSID) cordially
invites you to its upcoming Brown Bag Lecture Series:
HUMAN RIGHTS FOR WOMEN WITH HEADSCARVES IN TURKEY
By: Fatma Benli and Ayse Basibyk
(Introduction
by Merve Kavakci former Member of Turkish Parliament)
Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2007
12:00 Noon 1:00 PM
At the Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy (CSID)
1625 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 601 Washington
DC, 20036
Summary:
AKDER (www.ak-der.org) is an organization in Turkey
which was established in order to prevent any type of discrimination and
violation of human rights specifically committed against womens personal
rights, (education, working and to get a career); and to promote social
awareness regarding these issues.
About the Speakers:
Fatma Benli is the vice president of AKDER (Womens Rights Organization against Discrimination). She is an attorney at law and has got over one thousand clients who were dismissed from universities and civil service. She also can not attend trials. Her reports about headscarf ban and laws concerning womens rights in Turkey and honor killing have been quoted internationally.
Dr. Ayse
Basibyk studied medicine at Hacettepe
University in Ankara/Turkey and at Vienna
University in Austria. She is currently pursuing two doctoral
programs in Psychiatry and in political sciences at Vienna University. Her doctoral dissertation
in psychiatry is about chronic pelvic pain in first generation Turkish
immigrant women living in Vienna. Her second doctoral research is on the
international migration of Turkish students with headscarves with a specific
focus on the gender aspects of the migration theories.
Space is limited, please RSVP asap, to: Sherif@islam-democracy.org
This event will be available for viewing LIVE on the internet. If
you would like to watch the event online, please email: Sherif@islam-democracy.org
For questions or comments about
the information in this bulletin, contact
Sami Bawalsa at sami@islam-democracy.org.
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