Woman's Handbook: Our Rights in Law Prepared by Esra Koç and lawyer Ayşegül Kaya, printed in November 2006 in Turkish and Kurdish.
Woman's Handbook: Our Rights in the Laws is the updated and expanded re-print of Handbook of Woman Citizen, published in 1999. The book, which was published in November 2006 in Turkish and Kurdish, aims to provide practical information and legal know-how to women in different fields such as health, laws, or employment.
Guideline Information for NGOs - Booklet Set Published in 2003, the booklet set entitled "Guideline Information for NGOs" is a product of hCa's previous activities on the field of freedom of association. The booklet set is composed of five useful handbooks.
New Tactics in Human Rights: A Resource for Practitioners New Tactics workbook New Tactics in Human Rights: A Resource for Practitioners, serves as an introduction to tactical thinking and highlights approximately 100 tactics from around the world so that others can adapt these methods or be inspired to create their own. Also it has an extensive research section including a series of worksheets will help you and your organization think about your own work in terms of tactics and strategy.
Tactical Notebooks Edited by Liam Mahony. Translated by Balaban Cerit, Kaya Genç, Gülay Kuş.
2004.
Within the New Tactics Project, 29 tactical notebooks were developed. Each of these notebooks describes the tactics that the advocates use to advance human rights, explaining whether and how others could use similar methods in different circumstances. The authors - including an educator, a librarian, a health care worker, and a women's rights advocate - recount their personal experiences in these detailed tactical notebooks. Although their backgrounds and situations differ, all used innovative tactics to help address an urgent human rights situation.
Language Rights in the Process of European Integration Edited by Ebru Uzpeder.
2003, 122 pages.
“Education and publication in mother tongue”, or with a better expression, “freedom of language”, is one of the priority issues of Turkey in the process of EU integration...
Whether education and broadcasting/publication in mother tongue should be coordinated by the state or private initiatives, whether or not the adequate financial and human resources are available for adequate solutions, the type and duration of curriculum or broadcasting/publishing, naming children in mother tongue, whether or not the road/traffic signs could be bi/multi-lingual, how mother tongue could be used in court cases and which legal framework should all these topics be considered within are hotly debated by various groups.
Modernity and Multiculturalism İletişim Yayınları, 2001, 312 pages, Turkish-English, (sold out).
The future of the world, rise of nationalism, identity politics and the “other” question are in the center of today's debates, and it will probably continue to be.
Handbook of the Woman Citizen Co Edited by Esra Koç and Esra Güçlüer.
İletişim Yayınları, 1999, 102 pages, (sold out).
How, in what way and to what extent can a woman citizen (adult, married or divorced, with children, wanting to be self sufficient, working, with self-respect, wanting to be respected by her husband, her family, her colleagues, the average man on the street, the state, in short by everyone, and who respects these people) benefit from basic human rights?
Welcome to Civil Society 1998, 210 pages (sold out).
Welcome to Civil Society was published in a period when NGOs in Turkey were rather active while there were very few books written on NGOs.
Refugees in the Year for Tolerance / Symposium on Expectations from Non-governmental Organizations Edited by Şehrazat Çakıroğlu.
March 1996, 62 pages.
The symposium in which social problems relating to refugees, asylum seekers and illegal immigrants and legal instruments in this area were discussed had been organized by Helsinki Citizens' Assembly, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and Foreign Relations Practice and Research Center of Boğaziçi University.
Nationalism and European Integration / Civic Perspectives Edited by Nazan Aksoy.
November 1994, 87 pages.
"Over a big continent without a 'civic religion' and a new European consciousness, is it possible to live together in harmony?" Nationalism and European Integration mainly seeks an answer to this question.
Coexistence / Symposium on Religion and State Relations in Turkey The book consists of declarations and discussion texts presented at the symposium on "Coexistence - State-Religion Relation in Turkey", which was organized by the Commission of the Civic Approaches Against Conflicts in Helsinki Citizens' Assembly.
Avrupa Nerede Bitiyor? / Where Does Europe End? Edited by Taciser Belge.
December 1993, 173 pages, Turkish-English, (sold out).
The book is a product of a period when Europe by and large watched the growing problems of racism and nationalism fuelled by the developments in Yugoslavia and Bosnia and shut its doors to people who it considered as "outside".
Attention! Our Rights Süheyl Batum, Atilla Nalbant, İştar B.Tarhanlı, Sibel İnceoğlu, Yeşim Atamer, Ozan Erözden, Turgut Tarhanlı.
November 1993, 184 pages, (sold out)
Law to us is a totally strange area with its specific concepts, terms, and even with its structural rules. And the law books are incomprehensible, worrying and boring books.
Democracy Report 1 1 September 1993, 37 pages
Kurdish question, Turkey and conflicts in Yugoslavia and the Caucasus, Sivas massacre, political problems, security organizations, etc.
Peace Initiative for Kurdish Question It is an important book about Kurdish question and peace making process, which marks our near past with its "violence".
New Tactics in Human Rights International Symposium, Final Report, [October, 2004] The New Tactics in Human Rights International Symposium was the first training meeting of its kind, bringing together human rights activists from a broad range of disciplines to focus not on a single issue or region but on a full range of tactical possibilities and possible solutions.
