The Human Rights Education Program for Women (HREP) was developed in 1995 by WWHR-New Ways as a non-formal holistic human rights training program to equip women with necessary knowledge and skills towards the full enjoyment of their human rights and mobilization around their own needs towards social change and democratization as free and equal individuals.

According to the External Evaluation Research on HREP conducted by an independent research team, the impact of HREP on participants is:

• 93% of them have improved their self-confidence;
• 63% have stopped domestic violence while 22% have reduced it;
• 88% became resource people in their communities;
• 74% started participating more equally in decision-making in the family;
• 43% started participating actively in the labor market;
• 72% their husband’s attitude and behaviour towards them changed positively;
• 54% restarted their interrupted formal or non formal education;
• 90% gained knowledge on their political, civil and economic rights.

You can read the findings in detail in the HREP evaluation report.
(Evaluation report is also available in Turkish. Click here to download the Turkish version)