It had honoured its commitments to women 's reproductive rights under the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development , held in Cairo in September 1994 , and the Millennium Development Goals , and had been the first country to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence , adopted in April 2011 . Turkey would be the host country for the Europe and Central Asia Regional Office of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women ( UN-Women ) .