Pinar Ilkkaracan, Adjunct professor, Bosporus University, Istanbul, Turkey

Currently, she teaches as adjunct professor at the Bosporus University in Istanbul. She is the co-founder of many NGO’s in Turkey and Germany, such as Women for Women’s Human Rights (WWHR) – NEW WAYS, or the Berlin Intervention Center against Violence against Women (BIG).

In 2001, she initiated the Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies (CSBR), a network of 40 leading academic and nongovernmental organizations from Muslim countries in the Middle East, North Africa and South/ Southeast Asia.

She has led and coordinated several campaigns for successful legal reforms in Turkey, including the enactment of the law on domestic violence (1996-1997), the reform of the Turkish Civil Code (2000- 2001) and the reform of the Turkish Penal Code between 2002 and 2004.

Ilkkaracan has worked on sexual and reproductive health and rights as a researcher, activist and trainer since the 1990s at the national and international levels. She is a member of the Rutgers WPF and CSBR supervisory boards, as well as a editorial board member of the International Journal of Sexual Health, among others.

She has participated in many United Nations conferences and meetings, both as a member of the Turkish governmental delegation and as an activist. She is the editor of Women and Sexuality in Muslim Societies (translated into Arabic and Turkish), Deconstructing Sexuality in the Middle East, The Myth of the Warm Home: Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse and Women’s Human Rights Training Manual.

She received the International Women’s Human Rights Award from the Gruber Foundation in 2007.