Karin Nordmeyer is a human rights activist specializing in women’s rights. Since the 1990s, she has worked in the Council of Europe as a representative of Zonta International, where she was spokeswoman for the Conference of International Non-Governmental Organisations in the drafting of the text of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings and the Istanbul Convention. Through her longstanding involvement in the institutions of the Council of Europe, she is familiar with the women’s rights situation in the Balkan regions and in many Eastern European countries. Since 2004, she has been chairwoman of UN Women Nationales Komitee Deutschland e.V. (formerly UNIFEM), the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women. Karin Nordmeyer represents the association on German and international committees. She is a member of the German delegation to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, and has been appointed to the German federal government’s advisory board for civil crisis prevention.

k.nordmeyer@unwomen.de

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