*This is a 2025 CSW69 experience sharing article by Gülfer Kırbaş, Co-founder and Co-General Coordinator of ÇemberDE. I attended the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) meetings for seven days with the support of UN Women Turkey . During this time, I had the opportunity to speak with women activists from Turkey who have been following the CSW process for many years. These conversations helped me to evaluate my own observations within a broader context. The

As Çember Civil Initiative Association and Uçan Süpürge Women's Communication and Research Association, we participated in CSW70. We are documenting this process in New York as a collaborative memory project to make it more understandable for women's organizations and activists in Türkiye and to strengthen their participation in the international advocacy field. As the Circle Civil Initiative Association, together with the Flying Broom Women's Communication and Research Assoc

*This is a series of articles consisting of assessments by Gülfer Kırbaş, who attended the 70th meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) on behalf of ÇemberDE. The message of the sessions I attended on the first day of CSW70 was clear: Women's rights only gain meaning when they exist in legal texts, but when they become a reality in life. Although the topics discussed today ranged from justice and education to digital security, body rights, and women's lives in