Based on this information, write a new short title in English: CTP Women’s Organization organized a conference titled “Rethinking Care as Ethics and Rights” – BRTK

The conference titled “Rethinking Care as Ethics and Rights” organized by CTP Women’s Organization took place last night at Girne Dome Hotel.

At the conference, the effects of the “Care Crisis” on social policies, which has deepened with policies such as cuts in the budgets allocated by states to care services, marketization of health services and privatization of care services needed by vulnerable groups, were discussed.

CTP Women’s Organization President Deputy Doğuş Derya, who made the opening speech of the event, stated that, as an organization, they started a study one and a half years ago to find out what the situation is in the field of social policies in the country, and in this context, women, children, elderly, disabled, care-related and general issues devoted to these issues are discussed. He stated that they started collecting data on resources.

Stating that there are deficiencies in providing data in the state, Doğuş Derya said that he worked to create a database by visiting many areas related to the subject such as the Social Insurance Department, Labor Department, Social Services Department, elderly care homes, nurseries, kindergartens, Nicosia Children’s Home and SOS Children’s Village. He stated that they started it.

Women’s unemployment has deepened with the depreciation of the Turkish Lira, the capacity and quality of public and private elderly care homes are insufficient, the situation of nurseries is not encouraging, mothers working for minimum wage have difficulty in sending their children to private nurseries due to the lack of public nurseries for 0-3 years old, Doğuş Derya emphasized that there is a significant increase in violence, applications for women’s shelters and legal aid support, that the number of public kindergartens is insufficient, and that the need for public education increases with poverty. He stated that the information will be published in the social policies report.

Expressing that while carrying out these studies in the country, they also follow the issues discussed by the women’s movement in the world, Doğuş Derya stated that especially recently, discussions on the care crisis have intensified due to the expanded, marketized and privatized health services.

Doğuş Derya stated that “Global capitalism’s prioritization of only economic growth, while destroying nature, causes services such as patient, elderly, child and disabled care to be seen as a ‘personal’ problem.” He emphasized that it has become an agenda item.

Following the speech, professor Doctor Yakin Ertürk’s presentation titled “Rethinking Care as Ethics and Rights” took place.

Ertürk stated that special international days such as November 25, the Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, are of great importance in matters such as raising awareness, mobilizing people, accounting for the problems, reviewing the successes and the remaining ones, and mobilizing political will and resources.

Although November 25 was declared the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women at the United Nations in 1999, Ertürk said that the desired point has still not been reached today, and that there has been a huge increase in femicide and violence against women in Turkey in recent years, and that the methods used in the fight against violence should be reconsidered. pointed out that it should be addressed.

Reminding that October 29 was declared “Care and Support Day” by the United Nations last year, Ertürk expressed his belief that the issue of care is a critical issue that will accelerate the fight against violence and pave the way for social policies to create a caring and caring world.

Reminding that the care manifesto published in 2017 was translated into Turkish two years after the pandemic, Ertürk stated that the manifesto claimed that a collective and common life for universal care was possible and showed the ways to create it.

Noting that the care crisis broke out with the interruption of services during the pandemic period, Ertürk said that since the 1970s, due to reasons such as the withdrawal of the social state, the decrease in control power, and the emergence of neoliberal privatization policies, issues such as human welfare, ecological system, nature, human, agriculture and food balance have been affected. He pointed out that he raised an alarm.