INTERNATIONAL
WOMEN AND JUSTICE SUMMIT
KADIN VE ADALET ZİRVESİ
Constructed Beauties - 2026Artificial Intelligence and Women - 2024Cultural Codes and Women - 2022Staying Human in Digital Age - 2020Women in Peace Processes - 2016Family Empowerment - 2018Justice - 2014
Our International Women and Justice Summit, held biennially, is our international event where we draw attention to women’s issues. At the summit, we address many issues related to women, family, and society from a global and multifaceted perspective.
In 2014, we examined women’s issues in the context of justice.
In 2016, due to the humanitarian crisis in Syria, we organized a summit that included refugee women, and we said, “Raise Your Voice for Justice.”
In 2018, under the theme “Strengthening the Family,” we addressed the well-being of the family along with the responsibilities of both women and men.
In 2020, amidst the continuing pandemic, we sought answers to how we can protect humanity and truth in this new world shaped by artificial intelligence under the theme “Staying Human in the Digital Age.”
In 2022, we held our fifth summit with the theme “Cultural Codes and Women.”
With the experience and future vision we had gained from these summits, we organized the sixth International Women and Justice Summit under the theme “Artificial Intelligence and Women.”
The summit, held from November 21-23, 2026, addressed the theme of “Constructed Beauties,” exploring how perceptions of beauty and aesthetic preferences have become a flexible issue affecting education, employment, social visibility, and self-esteem.
VIIth SUMMIT – Constructed Beauties
Introduction and General Framework
In today’s world, perceptions of beauty have moved beyond the realm of aesthetic preference and have become a normative obligation and structural issue affecting many areas, from education to employment, and from public visibility to self-esteem. Idealized images produced through global media networks and digital technologies profoundly shape women’s self-esteem, body image, and patterns of behavior.
At KADEM’s seventh summit, we aim to redefine beauty on the basis of human dignity, gender justice, and equal opportunities, moving it beyond a tool that disciplines and objectifies women’s bodies. Through this summit, we seek to develop a justice-based and decolonial perspective against the homogenizing beauty regime, bringing together policymakers, academics, civil society representatives, and relevant stakeholders to establish a shared platform for discussion centered on awareness, policy, and cooperation.
The summit addresses beauty pressure in a multilayered manner through norm production, global power relations, economic and labor regimes, and technological trends. Our core approach is to open the issue of justice in beauty perceptions to discussion as an integral dimension of gender justice and to establish a shared conceptual ground in this field. The policy calls to be developed within the scope of the summit aim to bring invisible inequalities onto national and international agendas.
Key Questions
Throughout the summit sessions, the following critical questions will be addressed:
- What structural barriers restrict women’s participation in public life in the context of beauty standards?
- How do digital algorithms and AI-based filters render beauty norms “natural” and inevitable?
- How do beauty labor and invisible costs affect women’s economic independence?
- As women’s bodies change throughout the life cycle, what injustices are produced by the persistence of fixed beauty standards?
- How can local and pluralistic “Representational Justice” be built against homogenizing, Western-centered aesthetic norms?
5. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & WOMEN
5. CULTURAL CODES & WOMEN
4. STAYING HUMAN in DIGITAL AGE
3. FAMILY EMPOWERMENT
2. WOMEN in PEACE PROCESSES
1. JUSTICE
INTERNATIONAL
WOMEN AND JUSTICE SUMMIT
2014 – 2024
