Pinar Ilkkaracan

Pinar Ilkkaracan, a scholar / activist and psychotherapist from Turkey, has co-founded several NGOs, including Women for Women’s Human Rights – New Ways, of which she is the international program director. She is the co-founder of the Coalition of Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies, a bi-regional network of academicians and NGOs working toward the promotion of sexual and bodily rights in Muslim societies. She is the editor of Women and Sexuality in Muslim Societies (translated into Arabic and Turkish) and co-author of The Myth of the Warm Home: Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse and Human Rights Education for Women: A Training Manual and author of numerous articles.