Selmin Çalışkan

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Selmin Çalışkan (2015)

Selmin Çalışkan (* 1967 in Düren ) has been the director for institutional relations in the Berlin office of the Open Society Foundations since 2019 .

Before that, from 2013 to 2016 she was the general secretary of the German section of Amnesty International , where she made the human rights positions of the organization visible within politics and society through political and public interventions and led its strategic direction. Her successor was Markus N. Beeko .

Çalışkan has also worked for the women's rights organizations European Women's Lobby and Medica Mondiale as well as in development work for the Society for International Cooperation (GIZ). She played a key role in building up the Medica Mondiale lobby department and was in charge of it.

Çalışkan is the daughter of Turkish immigrants and a trained translator for English, Spanish and Turkish. She originally comes from social work with refugee women and migrants and worked in alliances between feminist migrants, Jewish and black women in Germany.

Web links

  • Page at Amnesty International
  • Selmin Caliskan: Generation change at Amnesty Germany . In: The time . Hamburg ( zeit.de [accessed on February 23, 2016]).
  • Simone Schmollack: Selmin Çaliskan: Amnesty shields new boss . In: the daily newspaper . ( taz.de [accessed on February 23, 2016]).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Caliskan new to the Open Society Foundations. Retrieved March 6, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Selmin Caliskan is Secretary General of Amnesty International in Germany. In: www.amnesty.de. Retrieved February 24, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Markus Beeko becomes the new general secretary , the daily newspaper , August 1, 2016
  4. ↑ Selmin Caliskan: Generation change at Amnesty Germany . In: The time . ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed on February 24, 2016]).
  5. ↑ Caroline Ausserer: Citizen of the world without pigeonholing. L-MAG, September 2013, accessed on March 6, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Çalışkan, Selmin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German General Secretary of the German section of Amnesty International
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Düren , Germany