UN WOMEN WEPS

As part of its commitment to promote gender equality and women's empowerment in the industry and society, BHM signed the Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs), a joint initiative of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (UN Women) and the United Nations Global Compact (UN Global 

In a special ceremony, BHM signed the Women's Empowerment Principles, committing to implementing these principles with the goal of creating a fair, safe, and equal opportunity workplace culture, leveraging its knowledge, expertise, and experience spanning over 50 years in the industry.

The commitments within the framework of the Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs) approved by the BHM Board of Directors include the following principles:

1.     Leadership in gender equality at high-level corporate

2.     Fair and respectful treatment of male and female employees without gender discrimination

3.     Ensuring the health, wellbeing, and safety of employees

4.     Supporting the education, training and career development of employees

5.     Monitoring enterprise development, supply chain and marketing practices to support women's empowerment

6.     Promoting and defending equal opportunities through community initiatives

7.     Regular measurement and reporting on gender equality progress

Sharing his thoughts within the scope of WEPs principles, BHM Chairman of the Board of Directors, Mr. Haydar, BARUT, said, "We believe that our success is because we have created a fair, safe, and equal working environment for all our colleagues. As a signatory of the Women's Empowerment Principles, we know women's important role. Our commitment to these principles is a responsibility we bear to shape the future of our company and create added value for our society. Our 2023-25 Human Values Strategic Plan reflects this commitment." they said.

United Nations Deputy Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, Sima Bahous, congratulated BHM, a signatory of WEPs, stating, "We congratulate BHM for taking the first step in its WEPs journey. We see BHM as a key partner in closing gender gaps in the workplace, sector, and society, and advancing the Sustainable Development Goals." She emphasized the importance of BHM's role under the WEPs principles with these words.

Sanda OKIAMBO, Executive Director of the UN Global Compact, expressed her gratitude to BHM with the following statement: "Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs) have been helping companies accelerate gender equality and advance the empowerment of women in the workplace, industry, and society for more than a decade. Women represent half of the world's population." WEPs offer the necessary roadmap to break down the barriers to women's economic empowerment, considering they are underrepresented in the business world. BHM welcomes this growing community and uses WEPs as a guide on the path to sustainability, where women and girls thrive, where women and girls thrive. Thank you for guiding and shaping the path to an equitable world."

BHM Group Human Values Director İbrahim Hakan YILMAZ said, "As BHM, we wish to provide a working environment that is fair, safe, worthy of human dignity, and offers equal opportunities to all our employees. "By committing to the United Nations Women's Empowerment Principles, we dream of a future where Gender Equality is not just a goal but a norm in business life," he said, emphasizing the value of WEPs principles for BHM.

BHM on the UN Women WEPs website: https://www.weps.org/company/bhm-otelcilik

ABOUT WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT PRINCIPLES

Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs) guide businesses on how to promote gender equality and empower women in workplaces, industry, and society. Created jointly by the UN Global Compact and UN Women, WEPs are underpinned by international labor standards and human rights, as well as the recognition that businesses have an essential role in promoting gender equality and women's empowerment. Adopting the seven principles is the best way for corporations to achieve the goals of gender equality and women's empowerment in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

ABOUT BHM

Continuing to serve in tourism investments with 2600 employees and 4331 bed capacity, BHM, with the strength and experience it draws from its deep-rooted past, stepped into city hotel management for the first time as Akra and Akra V in 2014, after its operations in Kemer and Sorgun, and breathed a fresh breath into Antalya. Brought. With its brand Akra Hotels, it always aims to be "above the competition" with the services it offers, innovative human values practices, and gastronomy experiences it creates in the rapidly growing field of hotel management internationally, with its experience of over 50 years. BHM continued its tourism investments with Akra Fethiye in 2015 and Akra Fethiye The Residence in 2019 and provides services in the tourism sector with a total of 6 businesses. In addition to tourism, it has the most equipped and cleanest textile washing and cleaning facility in the region. It serves a daily textile cleaning capacity of 80 tons and more than 300 employees in its 12 thousand square meter industrial washing and cleaning facilities in the Antalya Organized Industrial Zone.