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Turkey withdraws from Istanbul Convention, sparking protests and legal challenges <\/em><\/p>\n

On 20 March, Turkey\u2019s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan withdrew<\/a> the country from the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, known as the Istanbul Convention<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The convention supports women\u2019s right to life and combats gendered violence through \u2018prevention, protection, prosecution and coordinated policies<\/a>\u2019. The withdrawal will remove safeguards for Turkish women amid the nation\u2019s severe and increasing rates of femicide. The latest annual report<\/a> by Turkey\u2019s We Will Stop Femicide Platform reported 300 murders of Turkish women, mostly by their partners, and 171 suspicious female deaths in 2020.<\/p>\n

Politically, the move reflects increasing conservatism in Erdogan\u2019s governing Justice and Development Party (AKP). Analyst Alev Ozkazanc argues that the AKP traditionally attracts the female vote through \u2018Janus-faced<\/a>\u2019 gender policies that focus on women\u2019s rights through the lens of their roles as wives and mothers. Such policies discreetly reinforce conservative familial ideology and defines women exclusively as dependents.<\/p>\n

The withdrawal sparked widespread protests<\/a>, and the political opposition appealed to the State Council<\/a> to challenge the rescindment. The Istanbul Bar Association also denounced<\/a> the decision, arguing that Erdogan doesn\u2019t have the legal capacity to withdraw Turkey from the treaty.<\/p>\n

Police brutality highlights systemic gender-based violence in Mexico<\/em><\/p>\n

The death<\/a> of a Salvadoran refugee woman, Victoria Esperanza Salazar, while being subdued by Mexican police on 27 March brought the widespread issues of police brutality and gender-based violence in Mexico to the fore, igniting protests<\/a> across the country.<\/p>\n

Writing for the International Peace Institute, Gema Kloppe-Santamar\u00eda notes<\/a> that while Mexican President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador (also known as AMLO) has promised \u2018no impunity\u2019<\/a> for Salazar\u2019s killers, her death characterises a broader issue of femicides<\/a> throughout Mexico, which have grown exponentially since 2015<\/a> and now represent about 10% of murders in the country<\/a>. Exacerbating the issue further, she argues, is the country\u2019s history of abuse and extrajudicial killings by police forces and systemic impunity; shockingly, 93% of crimes in Mexico went unreported or uninvestigated in 2018.<\/a> As a result, 77%<\/a> of Mexican women reported feeling unsafe in 2019.<\/p>\n

While there have been some policy shifts<\/a> by AMLO\u2019s administration to combat femicide, Linnea Sandin argues that, without more serious steps, violent crimes against women will remain a systemic issue and women in Mexico will continue to feel unsafe. She suggests measures such as establishing early intervention domestic violence programs and funding a special prosecutor\u2019s office for gender-based crime, along with presidential support for gender violence protests.<\/p>\n

Withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan has implications for women\u2019s safety<\/em><\/p>\n

Concerns about the safety of Afghan women have been raised following US President Joe Biden\u2019s announcement that US troops in Afghanistan would be withdrawn by 11 September. Although Afghanistan has implemented<\/a> UN Security Council resolution 1325 by developing a national action plan on WPS, women\u2019s participation in the peace process<\/a> and in negotiations between the Taliban and the Afghan government remains minimal.<\/p>\n

Addressing the withdrawal, Abdullah Abdullah, head of the nation\u2019s High Council for National Reconciliation, said<\/a> that the decision might undermine the gains the council has made in the past two decades, especially in women rights. Women\u2019s participations in peace talks should continue to be advocated by all political stakeholders.<\/p>\n

Pacific women\u2019s role in responding to climate change\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The Pacific is one of the most vulnerable regions to the impacts climate change. Yet women in the Pacific who are directly affected by\u00a0climate-change-related threats have long been excluded from discussions or opportunities to contribute. They are not only marginalised<\/a>, but also simply considered as victims. Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls argues<\/a> that Pacific women should always be included in decision-making processes in regional responses, particularly because they have localised knowledge and can transform response approaches into more \u2018human and non-militarised security\u2019.<\/p>\n

Gendering terrorism in German courtrooms<\/em><\/p>\n

Gender researcher Carlotta Sallach, writing for the London School of Economics, assesses<\/a> how courts\u2019 treatment of female members of Islamic State as mothers first and women second reinforces gendered tropes and ignores women\u2019s agency in propagating terrorism. She notes that Germany\u2019s recent decision to repatriate three mothers from Kurdish camps because just repatriating their children posed legal challenges will encourage German trial lawyers to draw on gendered stereotypes to obtain lenient sentencing.<\/p>\n

Portrayals of IS women in court trials tend to focus on two narratives. The first is that IS women play no role in the group\u2019s terrorist activity, despite evidence that they have carried out crimes and the fact that it\u2019s the severity of those crimes that is usually under sentence. The second common narrative is that, despite evidence that IS women were trained in combat and don\u2019t see themselves exclusively as IS brides or mothers, they are best viewed through the lens of their motherhood roles rather than as criminal actors.<\/p>\n

This analysis adds to the body of work examining the use of gendered stereotypes in legal proceedings and in shaping public understandings of gender. Although women have without doubt experienced vulnerabilities as victims of terrorism<\/a>, often people and institutions fail to acknowledge that women also act as supporters, perpetrators and facilitators of terrorism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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