The conference opened successfully on February 20 and finished with certification ceremony on February 23rd, 2019. Thanks to all presenters for their most informative presentations, many lessons were learned and relationships developed. Thank you to all the participants from Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran and Turkey for their interest and participation during the conference. The conference organizers are most grateful to everyone for their effort and engagement throughout the conference. We set up the resource page, because of the popular demand by the participants wanting to have access to the presentations and other professional educational material in the field. Please visit the resource page and continue monitoring this site for various information on future conferences.
There will be a four-day conference in Istanbul, Turkey on domestic violence as a public health epidemic in the region, with particular focus on inviting Iranian, Turkish and Azerbaijani health, legal and social service providers as well as NGOs working in the DV space. The purpose of this conference is to strengthen the capacity of individuals and or organizations, which focus on DV prevention and intervention in these three countries. The conference will highlight the health implications for women’s health, children and their communities, bring awareness to members of these societies, health providers, legal and social workers. The conference is designed for practitioners, who work with or treat victims of DV and it will provide them with theoretical and practical approaches and processes that will increase public awareness and involvement in building advocacy skills in preventing and intervening in DV. These countries have cultural similarities and societal traditions, going back hundreds of years, viewing DV as a family matter. Because, Turkey and Azerbaijan in recent years have postured to adopt laws effecting DV their progress could be helpful to the Iranian participants, particularly those from the same socio-economic communities, because of their cultural and similar societal norms. We are collaborating with:
O'Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law
and
IRC(Innovations and Reforms Center).
The content of the conference, panel discussions and workshops will include: health implications of DV, physical or psychosocial, economics of DV, cultural barriers, prevention and intervention, policy and advocacy for victims of DV, governance and capacity building for the organizations, network building and collaboration, and philanthropy, fundraising and leadership of the organizations’ boards.
The goal of the conference is to train the attendees to become strong leaders in their professional work and to strengthen the role and capacity of service providers in the region by training them on DV and DV prevention and creating a regional network of professionals to support each other in domestic violence space. The conference planners encourage primary care physicians, nurses, lawyers, social workers, volunteers, managers of safehouses for victims of DV and leaders of DV NGOs to apply for this conference.
The conference will be in Istanbul, Turkey in February 20 through 23rd, 2019 and is open to Iranians, Turkish, and Azerbaijanis. The cost of attending the conference that includes; economy class international travel from these three countries, lodging, meals and planned travel within the city is covered by a NGO and in partnership with O’Neil Institute for Global Health Law, Georgetown Law Center, in Washington DC, and Innovation and Reform Center, in Georgia.