KHRP co-hosted a training and strategy meeting with SELİS Women's Consultation Centre in Diyarbakır at Bağlar Municipality Conference Center on 23 and 24 February 2008. The training was attended by 20 women from organisations dealing with women's rights throughout the region. KHRP conducted human rights training seminars in the region in 2005 and 2006 focussing on advocacy and women’s rights. It was felt that this previous training had instilled a good basic knowledge of the Convention and established its relevance at the grassroots level. However there was a need for further, more detailed training, specifically on how to use the Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). Turkey has failed to submit a report outlining its implementation of the obligations contained in CEDAW in January 2007 - this implementation is due for review by the CEDAW committee in 2009.

Participants at the training session