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 NGOs working in this area to assume a stronger posture of opposition, provide the fundamental motive for the formation of the Joint Platform for Human Rights.
The long term objective of Human Rights Joint Platform, which is an independent medium of solidarity and sharing as formed by the NGOs pursuing human rights struggle in Turkey, is to contribute to development and maintenance of a participatory and pluralist environment wherein human rights would be observed, the rule of law would prevail, the civil society would participate in an effective manner in the decision-making processes, and a medium of dialog would be sustained.