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SUMMARY:FAU CHREN Human Rights Colloquium: "The implications of Turkey
 's withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention" with Dr. Janina Heaphy
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DESCRIPTION:This FAU CHREN Human Rights Colloquium will be held on 
 14 January 2026 from 6:15 to 7:30 pm and will feature Dr. Janina Hea
 phy as speaker. The session analyses Turkey’s democratic backsliding
  and authoritarian consolidation\, with particular attention the count
 ry’s systematic violation of core international norms\, including fu
 ndamental human rights obligations. Drawing on several interconnected 
 research projects\, the session particularly zooms in on  Turkey’s 
 withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention highlighting how this withdraw
 al forms part of a wider strategy of stigma balancing\, enabling Ankar
 a to navigate its multi-vectoral foreign-policy between Russia and Eur
 ope while reframing both domestic and international norm commitments. 
 Moreover\, the session assesses the withdrawal’s consequences for th
 e Council of Europe and the broader implications for the resilience of
  human-rights institutions under conditions of geopolitical tensions a
 nd democratic erosion.  Speaker bio: Janina Heaphy works as a senior 
 researcher at the FAU Center for Human Rights (CHREN)\, where she rese
 arches and teaches foreign policy analysis\, human rights\, diplomacy\
 , and security studies. In her doctoral thesis\, Janina Heaphy examine
 d the emergence of extraterritorial human rights protections in Americ
 an\, British\, and German counterterrorism efforts and has since resea
 rched various accountability mechanisms  as well as state strategies 
 for avoiding said accountability in light of international norm violat
 ions. Her articles have been published in the European Journal of Inte
 rnational Relations\, as well as in Policy&Politics\, Cooperation and 
 Conflict\, and Perspectives on Politics. She is a co-editor of the Jou
 rnal of Human Rights (zfmr). In the course of her academic career\, Ja
 nina Heaphy has worked as a lecturer and research assistant at the uni
 versities of Leiden\, Bamberg\, Munich (LMU)\, and Aston University Bi
 rmingham. She is currently working on her ‘Habilitation’ at the Ch
 ai
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