Naile Tanış

The lawyer Naile Tanış has been the head of the Independent National Rapporteur Mechanism on Trafficking in Human Beings at the German Institute for Human Rights since May 16, 2023. Before, she worked as an expert advisor in the Berlin Senate Department for Higher Education and Research, Health and Long-Term Care in the Women and Gender Equality Division (October 2020 – May 2023). Her responsibilities included developing fundamental political positions on womens issues for the state of Berlin in the area of anti-violence work, as well as the strategic and statewide management, implementation, and evaluation of measures to improve the Berlin support system for the protection and better care of women affected by violence, taking into account the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention).

She began her professional career as a lawyer (2002 – 2004). She then served for 14 years as the managing director of the association "Network against Trafficking in Human Beings" (KOK e. V.). There, she was responsible for project and financial management, supported networking, committees, lobbying, and project work, authored various publications on human trafficking, and was repeatedly invited as an expert witness on human trafficking to hearings in the German Bundestag. Since 2020, she has been an honorary board member at KOK e. V. In her role as managing director of KOK e. V., she also served as a board member of the "Violence Against Women" helpline until 2020. After her time at KOK e. V., she spent two and a half years as the full-time Womens Commissioner at the Berlin University of the Arts. During this time, she developed measures, initiatives, and guidelines for equal opportunities and for raising the visibility of gender and diversity-related issues.

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