Implemented since 1995 with the aim of developing an awareness of women’s human rights and equality, and achieving the active and equal participation of women in all spheres of life from the public to the private, HREP contributes to women’s grassroots organizing for legal and political change with the holistic approach it espouses.

WWHR engages in collaborative and participatory advocacy work on the local, national, regional, and international levels in order to have legal rights preserved, implemented and improved as well as raise awareness and have the necessary mechanisms put into effect for the full realization of women’s human rights in Turkey and across the globe.

WWHR produces and disseminates knowledge by creating platforms for the distribution of information it produces through publications and other audiovisual, print and digital tools, combining action and research in it’s effort to promote women’s human rights, feminism and gender equality in Turkey.