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Working groups that are open to all of the member organizations carry out the activities of Human Rights Joint Platform (IHOP). Working groups are responsible for developing the content of work for activities as identified within the overall strategic framework and implementing that work. In carrying out those functions, the …

Secretariat is composed of professional staff and works linked to the Steering Committee. The Secretariat provides coordination and professional services to the Steering Committee and Working Groups. The role of the secretariat is to help IHOP member organisations to get closer and develop activities for the sustainablity of the Platform. The work …

Steering Committee, wherein each of the organizations that constitute the Platform is represented by two members of the Committee, has the powers to make decisions that basically concern the Platform. The Steering Committee has the responsibility for determining the basic framework of the activities that are needed to achieve the …

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"IHOP believes that the human rights movement in Turkey, which comprises all individuals, groups, and NGOs that are carrying out activities and making efforts for bringing about respect for human rights and freedoms and promoting these rights at national and international levels, towards the purpose of the State’s fulfilling its …

In the face of the political environment currently surrounding us, the developments detrimental to human rights and freedoms gaining permanence in the international domain, and the State’s exploiting these trends as grounds for harboring anti-democratic elements; the increasing need for strengthening the human rights struggle and the need for the …

Human Rights Joint Platform is an independent platform composed of Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly, Human Rights Association  and Amnesty International Turkey. Human Rights Joint Platform is an independent medium of sharing made up of the four NGOs operating in the domain of human rights and freedoms and development of democracy in …

We are here to share our proposal for a draft bill on the article 301 of Turkish Penal Code which is signed by 20 thousands individuals from different segments of society and supported by more than 100 organisations representing thousands of citizens.   We demand immediate abolishment of the article 301 …

In the course of next week, the Human Rights Joint Platform will submit to the President of the GNAT, Mr Bülent Arınç, the proposal for a draft law concerning Article 301 which it has prepared together with the Peace Initiative and the signatures collected in support of it. The proposal …

Because Hrant Dink has been targeted and murdered because of the article 301 cases brought before the court against him. The Freedom of Thought campaign, launched by Human Rights Joint Platform which is established by Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly, Human Rights Association, MAZLUMDER, and Amnesty International Turkey on 30 November 2006, …