Pinar Ilkkaracan and two organizations she co-founded, WWHR and the CSBR are announced as the recipient of 2007 Women's Rights Award issued by the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation.

The Gruber Foundation praised Pinar Ilkkaracan's work as "...both individually and through her leadership with two organizations that she co-founded, Pinar Ilkkaracan has helped reform Turkish laws to advance gender equality and made these laws accessible to women at the grassroots level, instigated advocacy efforts to promote sexual, bodily and reproductive rights in Muslim societies, and advocated on the international level for the advancement of women’s human rights."  

For more information please go to the Gruber Foundation website at:

http://gruberprizes.org/GruberPrizes/WomensRights_LaureateOverview.php?awardid=33