About the Center
Human Rights Research and Application Center
General Information
T.R. Maltepe University Human Rights Research and Application Center was established on December 9, 2005 and started to offer thesis and non-thesis master's programs in the 2008-2009 academic year. The Center organizes human rights and ethics training programs for public officials within the framework of non-formal education programs, in cooperation with the Human Rights Boards of the districts in the region.
On 13 May 2009, with an agreement signed with UNESCO, a UNESCO Chair in Philosophy and Human Rights was established within the Centre.
Since its establishment, the Center has published two national and seven international publications: "Problems Encountered in the Protection of Human Rights" (2007), "Human Rights in the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration" (2008), "Rethinking the Philosophy of Law: Legal Theories, Human Rights and Constitutions" (2009), "Identities Problem and Human Rights in Southeastern Europe" (2009), "Law He organized conferences on "Ethical and Human Rights Problems Encountered in Creation and Implementation" (2011), "Violence and Human Rights" (2012), "When Looking at Events and People with the Knowledge of Human Rights" (2014), "Value, Values and Meaning" (2016) and "Human Rights in the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration" (2018) and published the papers presented in five of these conferences as a book. published.
The Center expressed its opinion on some human rights violations, either requested from it or upon its own decision, such as terminally ill patients in prisons; He conducted a study on the "Draft Law on the Human Rights Institution of Türkiye" in cooperation with the Ankara Bar Association Human Rights Center, adapted this draft to the Paris principles and reported his suggestions to the relevant subcommittee of the Constitutional Commission of the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
Mission of the Center
The mission of the center is to contribute to increasing the number of people who look at what is happening in Turkey and in the world from a human rights perspective, to the dissemination of this perspective, and to taking clearly understood human rights as a basis when making and implementing laws, through the research it conducts, the meetings it organises, the books it publishes, the formal and non-formal education it carries out and other studies.
Vision of the Center
The vision of the center is a Turkey and a world where there are no human rights violations due to ignorance, where people do not die from treatable diseases, where hungry people do not live, and where an increasing number of people live a life worthy of human dignity.