DUSHANBE, May 22, Asia-Plus  - Professor Yakin Erturk, the Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council on Violence against Women, its Causes and Consequences, will give a press conference on the results of her visit to Tajikistan at the UNDO Office in Dushanbe on May 23, Safarbek Soliyev, external relations adviser, UNDP CO, said. 

We will recall that Ms. Erturk arrived in Tajikistan for an official visit at the invitation of the Tajik Government on May 15.       

During her stay in Tajikistan, the Special Rapporteur met with Tajik officials, representatives of a number of women’s NGOs, civil society members, representatives of United Nations agencies and international organizations, as well as religious leaders and individual victims of violence against women to assess the types of violence against women in Tajikistan as well as the State response to address such violence.

Based on the information obtained during the visit, she will present a report containing her findings and recommendations to a forthcoming session of the Human Rights Council.

Yakin Erturk, Professor of Sociology at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, was appointed Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women in 2003