Education in Poverty: Portraits from Turkey February 2024
Twenty million students in Turkey, including approximately five and a half million in primary schools, resumed the second term on February 5th, 2024. Education continues to play a critical role in breaking the cycle of poverty in Turkey (1). Unfortunately, attendance in education in Turkey means struggling with significant challenges for many students and families....
Information Note for November 20, International Children’s Rights Day SCHOOL MEALS COALITION 2023
As the Deep Poverty Network, in the 2021-2022 academic year, we started raising awareness for our country to join the School Meals Coalition, which we believe will be an important threshold for our country to access free and healthy school meals, which is the fundamental right of nearly twenty million students in our country and...
AFTER THEECONOMIC CRISIS AND FEBRUARY 6TH EATHQUAKES: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR POLICIES TO COMBAT DISASTER AND POVERTY
April – November 2023 Poverty, which was already on the agenda due to the economic crisis and the pandemic, has deepened and spread across the country with the February 6 Earthquake. Concerned about the danger of ignoring a rights-based and multidimensional approach in the fight against deepening poverty, which has been on the agenda of...
Calling All Parliamentary Candidates to Combat Deep Poverty
Deep Poverty Network has launched a campaign calling on all parliamentary candidates to combat poverty and prioritize this struggle with a rights-based perspective. The campaign calls on candidates to embrace the 24-point commitments that outline the framework of the campaign against deep poverty.
2022 Activity Report has been published!
As Open Space Association & Deep Poverty Network, our annual report summarizing our work in 2022 has been published.
GUIDING PRINCIPLES: HOW SHOULD POVERTY BE REPORTED?
In January 2022, we started monitoring the media for poverty-related news stories to analyze which prejudices were maintained, how the idea of being ‘poor’ was depicted and what discourse strategies were deployed, all while seeking to represent good examples. As a result, we published “Monitoring Report: Poverty Agenda In the Media ( January-August 2022)” Following the analyses...
GUIDING PRINCIPLES: USE OF VISUAL CONTENT ON POVERTY
In January 2022, we started monitoring the media for poverty-related news stories to analyze which prejudices were maintained, how the idea of being ‘poor’ was depicted and what discourse strategies were deployed, all while seeking to represent good examples. As a result, we published “Monitoring Report: Poverty Agenda In the Media ( January-August 2022)” When news,...