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A HDP women's conference in 2013
WOMEN from across Turkey will gather for a major two-day conference in Istanbul this weekend intent on turning “the resistance into an organised force.”
The second Women’s Conference in Turkey takes place against a backdrop of diminishing rights in the country under a series of government-led attacks, including plans to introduce a sickening child-rape law.
Under the proposed legislation, paedophiles will be granted amnesty as long as they marry their victims. As many as 4,000 people convicted of sexual offences are set to be pardoned if the Bill is passed by the Turkish parliament as expected.
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The pioneering activist understood that freedom could only be won through solidarity across communities. Her legacy offers vital lessons at a time when progressive politics risks losing that shared purpose
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