Prologue
At the Flying Broom Women's Communication and Research Association, which we
founded in 2008 with the aim of ensuring gender equality in all areas, protecting and
improving the human rights of women and girls, we have never stopped making visible
the words, experiences and efforts of girls and women. We draw attention to the
damage, inequalities and rights violations caused by sexism, racism, speciesism, ageism,
ableism, homophobia, adultism, and all other discriminatory actions and discourses to
both humanity and living and non-living beings on this planet, through written or visual
tools in every field we can contribute to, and with the people and communities we
interact with in every environment we are in. We regard rights advocacy as a whole and
focus on solidarity with all neglected and ignored segments of society.
As a manifestation of our inexhaustible hope, this research is a ‘collaborative effort’ to
reveal how the deepening inequalities, deprivations and discriminatory policies caused
by inadequate, sloppy, exclusionary and incompatible responses to emergencies that
have become persistent in an era of polycrisis affect the human rights of children and
women, and to influence policy priorities and resource planning allocated for
implementation to be prepared and resilient to crises.
Our project was funded under the Economic and Social Rights of Disadvantaged
Groups in Türkiye through Monitoring and Advocacy Partnerships, implemented in
partnership with the Association for Monitoring Equal Rights (ESHİD) and Human Rights
Information and Documentation Systems (HURIDOCS), supported by the Delegation of
the European Union to Türkiye under the Thematic Programme on Human Rights and
Democracy. We run this project in cooperation with the Association for Freedom and
Equality for Women (KÖVED), aiming to reveal the current situation of child, early and
forced marriage, taking into account the post-earthquake social dynamics, possible
risks and data.
The field research we conducted in Adana, where KÖVED is located, enabled us not
only to generate data, but also to see the need for social policy to protect the human
rights of women and girls in contexts such as migration and humanitarian crises,
poverty, gender inequality, access to education.
We would like to thank ESHİD and HURIDOCS not only for financial and technical
support, but also for their contributions that improved our evidence-based advocacy
capacity in the context of data management.
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