Women for Women's Human Rights (WWHR) works to promote women's rights in Turkey.[1] They work on documenting and sharing information about the status of women's human rights in that country and promote programs to help empower women.[1] They have published information about women's legal rights and status in Turkey.[2] Information that WWHR has published has been used in research examining women's rights in Turkey.[3] WWHR has also worked to fight violence against women and to define marital rape as a crime.[4]
Women for Women's Human Rights (WWHR) was founded in December 1993 in Turkey.[1]Pinar Ilkkaracan is the founder of the group.[6]
WWHR created an international campaign to amend the Civil Code, though it was not successful in getting Parliament to act on the laws pertaining to women.[7] In 1996, WWHR was involved in a campaign to end legal discrimination against women in Turkey.[8] Women did not have the right to choose where their families lived and did not have full custody of their own children.[8] WWHR was part of an international campaign to obtain signatures on a petition to change the laws in Turkey.[8]
WWHR organized a 2001 Conference on Women, Sexuality and Social Change in the Middle East and Mediterranean where participants from various countries confronted issues relating to women's rights.[9]
In 2015, WWHR was one of 49 organizations to sign onto the Statement on the 48th Session of the UN Commission on Population and Development.[10]
^Ilkkaracan, Pinar (2002). "Building Feminist Solidarity: Women Hold Conference on Sexuality And Social Change". Off Our Backs. 32 (3/4): 18–21. ISSN0030-0071. JSTOR20837539.