15 Facts About Feride Acar

Feride Acar was born on 1948 and is a Turkish international expert on women and gender.

Feride Acar was the founding chair of the Middle East Technical University's gender and women's studies program.

Ayse Feride Acar was born on 14 January 1948 in Bursa, Turkey.

Feride Acar earned a bachelor's degree in sociology at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara in 1970.

Feride Acar furthered her education in the United States, earning a master's degree in 1973 and a PhD in 1976, from Bryn Mawr College in political sociology.

Feride Acar was the founding chair of the Gender and Women's Studies Graduate Program at METU and served as its head from 1994 to 2004.

Feride Acar attended the 1995 Beijing Conference on women and was elected to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in 1997.

Feride Acar served on the CEDAW Committee through 2005, acting as its rapporteur between 1999 and 2001, vice president from 2001 to 2003, and president between 2003 and 2005.

Feride Acar returned to the CEDAW Committee in 2011 and served until 2019.

Feride Acar assisted in the development of the Istanbul Convention from 2006 to 2011 and when its monitoring organ went into force, she served as a member.

Feride Acar was the Turkish Representative of the first monitoring Ad Hoc Committee from 2009 to 2010, and from 2015, the Group of Experts of Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence.

Feride Acar was elected for three consecutive terms as president of GREVIO, completing her service in 2019.

In 2019, Feride Acar was awarded the Pro Merito Medal of the Council of Europe for her service in advancing women's rights.

The focus of Feride Acar's research has typically been gender equality and women's rights.

Feride Acar has written on women in academia and education, in socio-political movements, and with regard to international human rights standards.