Information Meeting on the UPR Process in Turkey: Human Rights Defenders

IOHR and the Press Emblem Campaign held a panel discussion on 27 January 2020 at the United Nations Office in Geneva to coincide with the UN’s Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review of Turkey. Şebnem Korur Fincancı, President of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, Annie Van Wezel, Former Co-Chair of the EESC EU-Turkey Joint Consultative Committee and Award-winning human Kurdish human rights defenders Nurcan Baysalm, discuss the unprecedented threat to human rights defenders, NGOs and trade unions in Turkey.