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Oktay Barkin

Turkey

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The subject of my master's thesis was "Semiotic Analysis of Posters on Violence Against Women". The thesis I reached here was that slogans such as "Don't hit a woman", "Don't hurt her", "Don't raise your hand" or portraits of women with purple eyes were semiotically problematic. Because this gave the connotation that women were individuals who could be subjected to violence. In this respect, if we want to create an environment that will be in favor of women, we can only do this by showing women as strong. On the contrary, the studies will work against women. In short, the studies I do on women will show women as strong no matter what.
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Stop killing women


According to UN Women, 2022 was the year in which the most women were intentionally murdered to date: nearly 89,000. Of these ‘Around 48,800 women and girls worldwide were killed by their intimate partners or other family members (including fathers, mothers, uncles and brothers). This means that, on average, more than 133 women or girls are killed every day by someone in their own family.’
If it’s not bad enough that femicide is increasing, the real statistic is probably much higher: ‘for roughly four in ten intentional murders of women and girls, there is not enough information to identify them as gender-related killings because of national variation in criminal justice recording and investigation practices’.
This must change. So this year, we want to ask your help in drawing attention to all forms of violence against women: for the world to stop killing women.

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