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We come together at the ‘Children’s Rights and Respect for Differences’ activity in order to inform children about children’s rights, to respect differences and to increase their awareness that all children have equal rights. The study consists of two parts for children aged 8-10 and covers the issues of children’s ...

Women’s Neighborhood Meeting Its Residents There is a new safe space for women We have developed a phone application where women can meet remotely and access information. Women’s Neighborhood is a safe space where accurate information is regularly updated, where women can socialize and where the work of the Women’s ...

Digitalization in Women’s Studies Workshop / 31 March 2022 We have seen that the use of digital tools in women’s studies cannot be considered in the same way as the use of digital tools in general.  We organized a workshop on Digitalization in Women’s Studies. We had been planning this ...

COVID-19 Vaccine Attitude Analysis Is Published  “Covid-19 Vaccine Attitude Analysis Research Report of Syrian Communities” covers information obtained as a result of focus group discussions and monitoring the attitudes of Syrian refugees regarding vaccination throughout the pandemic. Vaccination of individuals over the age of 65 against Covid-19 had been initiated ...

Mavi Kalem’s 2022 Trainings of Trainers Commenced Trainings of Trainers (ToTs) of Mavi Kalem’s empowerment series continue. Male Participation for Women’s Empowerment and Girls’ Empowerment workshop series meet and grow with new trainer candidates. Mavi Kalem has two workshop series aimed for empowerment and raising awareness. One of them is ...

We are Coming Together with Families We are gathering with all the members of the family, we feel cheered and strengthened. Within the scope of the information activities of Women’s Consultation Center, we organize events where we meet with beneficiaries’ families. The majority of the activities held at Women’s Consultation ...

Women Are Writing Beautiful Stories! Stories that start with violence and end with empowerment. We set out to make a project where we can talk about the legal rights of women against violence and the conditions and ways in which they can exercise these rights. We wanted to do this ...

While developing our projects, we benefited from the information we heard from women and from their lives.  Since 2000, we have been working to empower women with teams mostly consisting of women. Our work has evolved from the very beginning in close communication with the women and children who benefit ...

We have to open a space to talk about the aggravation of gender inequality and the restriction of women’s access to rights and services in disasters and emergencies. Mavi Kalem organized the Women in Disaster and Emergency Situations Workshop which was held on 16-17 April 2016 in Istanbul. The fact ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has opened a window of opportunity that allows us to develop innovative approaches which we will continue to benefit from. With the declaration of a pandemic in March 2019, we immediately ceased our face-to-face implementations in order not to jeopardize our project teams or beneficiaries. We started ...