The project of BİLGİ Human Rights Law Research Center titled "United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) Literacy for Legal Professionals" and supported by the İstanbul Consulate of Federal Republic of Germany started from 1 February 2022 onwards and will continue until 31 December 2022.

The project aims to increase the awareness of lawyers and to strengthen them on gender equality, violence against women and women's human rights, international standards on the human rights of women, international human rights mechanisms, individual application procedures, and interpretation and implementation of CEDAW.

To accomplish these goals, a book of experts on CEDAW will be published, two launching events for the book in Ankara and in Istanbul will be organized in panel format, a needs assessment analysis meeting will be conducted in order to focus on the needs of the lawyers with regard to the international standards of the human rights of women, online trainings will be organized for women lawyers in different provinces of Turkey, monitoring and evaluation of these trainings will be conducted. 

In the project, Expert Researcher Sevinç Eryılmaz Sevengör and Expert Researcher Gökçeçiçek Ayata will serve as project coordinators.