You can view the illustrations from the National Visual Art Competition that were selected to be exhibited. The competition, held in February 2022, aimed to support the fight for rights and justice for survivors of violence, to raise awareness of the support needed during and after an act of violence and the mechanisms through which accurate information can be obtained, and to show that women are not alone in the face of violence.

 

Violence against women remains one of the most serious and widespread human rights violations. Violence against women refers to any act of gender-based violence, whether occurring in the public or private sphere, that causes or may cause physical, sexual, psychological or economic harm or suffering to women, as well as threats of such acts, coercion and arbitrary deprivation of liberty.

 

Violence against women, understood as a violation of human rights and a form of discrimination against women, affects the lives of almost one in three women, in other words 736 million women globally.  Working with the principle that a solution can only be possible with the provision of SDG 5: Gender Equality, one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UNDP positions gender equality at the center of all its projects.

 

You can click here for more detailed information about this exhibition, which was held in cooperation with UNDP Türkiye and Design in Law Türkiye.