CEDAW AND THE WOMEN’S RIGHTS Author: Irem Ezgi KURTULUS Translated by: Hande BOZBORA CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women) is an internationally recognized legal document, which covers many aspects of women’s rights. The Convention was adopted in 1979 by the United Nations General Assembly. Turkey became a party to…
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Ali Can ŞANLI Translated by: Mehmet Faruk KOÇAK Having around fourteen square kilometers of land, the Antarctic is located in the South Pole of the World and discovered by a Norwegian explorer, Roald Amundsen in 1911. The continent’s name has its origins in the Arctic, an appellation of the North Pole, which is located in…
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Akif ERDEM Translated by: Senem NECİP Edited by: Onur KARADAL There is a Latin legal term which is expressed in the form of “opinio iuris sive necessitatis (briefly; opinio iuris)” which’s meaning is “law or necessity of thought”. This concept emerges as a formation of the custom (coutume) rules in today’s modern international…
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Görkem Berkay GÜNEN Translated by:Mehmet Faruk KOÇAK None of the member states of EU has been imposing death penalty on the convicts since 1997, with the exception of Belarus which is not a member of European Council. During the period in which European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) had been opened for signature in 1950,…
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Ayşe YANIK Tanslated by: İrem GÜNAYDIN Edited by: Onur KARADAL Laws about minors form the basis of child law. Child law is a legal speciality that is focused on children. Like every other branch of law, it is a set of rules of social behavior that is recognised and enforced by the state. [1]…
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Ceren ÖZBEK Translated by: Mehmet Faruk KOÇAK Overall: “Especially after the end of WW2, the notion that people having innate, indispenseble and inalienable rights which are beyond states’ claim, and that states have a duty to recognise and improve these rights, revived. Thus, new perspectives regarding the issue began to be sought out.” In this…
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Melis KARAKOÇ Translated by: Esra Kayandan Edited by:Pınar Özcan In 1999, 25th of November was declared as an International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women by the General Assembly of the United Nations.Within this framework , on 25th of Novembers various types of events are being organized, to bring forward , discuss…
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Caner Yeşil The route of technology is drawn by the needs of humankind. This has been a given fact since we had learned how to control fire. On the other hand, law follows this path with a distance, cautiously. Every judicial system prefers to be dynamic. However, it is always difficult to move for big…
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Görkem Berkay GÜNEN Translated by: Elif Naz KARAKURT Many of the about 65,000 cases pending before the European Court of Human Rights are so- called “repetitive cases”, which derive from a common dysfunction at the national level. The pilot judgment procedure was developed as a technique of identifying the structural problems underlying repetitive cases against…
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