{"id":1589,"date":"2009-02-26T02:11:56","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T01:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:01:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T12:01:04","slug":"women-for-womens-human-rights-wwhr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=1589","title":{"rendered":"Women for Women's Human Rights WWHR"},"content":{"rendered":"

Linked with Pinar Ilkkaracan – Turkey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Women for Women\u2019s Human Rights-New Ways is a women\u2019s and human rights NGO established in Turkey in 1993. Our mission is to promote women\u2019s human rights and to support the active and broad participation of women as free individuals and equal citizens in the establishment and maintenance of a democratic and peaceful order at national, regional and international levels. (Homepage<\/a>).<\/p>\n

HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION PROGRAM<\/a> for women HREP;
\nADVOCACY AND LOBBYING ON THE NATIONAL LEVEL<\/a>;
\nSEXUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN MUSLIM SOCIETIES<\/a>;
\nWWHR at the United Nation<\/a>s; Advocacy at the UN level<\/a>;
\nPublications<\/a>; News<\/a>; Media coverage in the Turkish press<\/a>;
\nLinks<\/a>;
\nAddress: Women for Women’s Human Rights, New Ways, In\u00f6n\u00fc Caddesi, 29\/6, Saadet Apt., G\u00fcm\u00fcssuyu, Istanbul, Turkey;
\nContact<\/a>.<\/p>\n

About<\/a>: Women for Women\u2019s Human Rights (WWHR) \u2013 New Ways, an independent women\u2019s NGO, was founded in 1993 with the aim of promoting women\u2019s human rights in Turkey and on the international level. Since its foundation, WWHR has become a widely renowned non-governmental organization around the globe. Through a decade of activism, advocacy and lobbying, WWHR \u2013 New Ways has contributed significantly to various legal reforms in Turkey, networking in Muslim societies and promotion of women\u2019s human rights at the United Nations (UN) level. Since 2005, WWHR – New Ways has consultative status with the Economic & Social Council (ECOSOC) of the UN.<\/p>\n

On the international level, WWHR \u2013 New Ways has successfully worked to initiate a network of academicians and NGOs advocating for women\u2019s human rights in Muslim societies. It has initiated and is coordinating \u201cThe Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies (CSBR)\u201d , the first active solidarity network in Muslim Societies for the promotion of sexual and reproductive health and rights as human rights. Our publications include the first comprehensive reader on human rights and sexuality, Women and Sexuality in Muslim Societies published in English, Turkish and Arabic. Our co-founder Pinar Ilkkaracan, and the two organizations she co-founded (WWHR and the CSBR) were announced as the recipient of 2007 Women’s Rights Award issued by the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation.<\/p>\n

Our Human Rights Education Program for Women, which has celebrated its 11th anniversary in 2006, is one of the most widespread and comprehensive non-formal human rights education programs in the world. It was elected as one of the \u201cbest tactics in human rights worldwide\u201d in an international program coordinated by The Centre for Victims of Torture.<\/p>\n

WWHR \u2013 New Ways was elected as one of the NGOs worldwide to deliver a statement at the U.N. March 8th Global World Conference in 1999, in recognition of its advocacy and lobbying efforts towards the adoption of a protection order law against domestic violence in Turkey. WWHR was also awarded the 1999 Leading Solutions Award by the Association for Women in Development (AWID), in recognition of its contributions to advancing gender equality and social justice.<\/p>\n

What is characteristic about WWHR-New Ways?<\/p>\n