2013 Events

• April 26, 2013 (6:30-8:30pm): South Asian Studies Program presents: Young India's Tahrir moment and after. The speaker, Dr. Ayesha Kidwai is professor of Linguistics (JNU, Delhi,India). She is also an activist and a member of Jawaharlal Nehru University's Gender Sensitisation Committee Against Sexual Harassment. The rape and eventual death of a young medical student in December 2012 caused a massive upsurge, hitherto unprecedented, amongst young men and women and became the cause of a serious churning in Indian society on the issue of women's rights. Dr. Kidwai  discussed the events surrounding the event. Co-sponsored by: Department of Sociology, SAS, Social and Behavioral Sciences Dean's Office and Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL).
• April 24-25, 2013: Executive Director Radhika Balakrishnan participated in OHCHR's Expert Group Meeting on Promoting human rights in post-crisis financial regulation and macroeconomic policies. New York, NY.
• April 24, 2013 (4-6pm): Feminist Leadership: Transforming Boundaries. Student report back from the Women's Rights and Policy Making through the United Nations. Reception. Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building, 162 Ryders Lane, New Brunswick, NJ.
• April 19, 2013 (11am-5pm): Program Coordinator Margot Baruch presented at the Global Philanthropic Symposium. Busch Campus Center, Piscataway, NJ.
• April 17, 2013 (6:30pm): Global Fund for Women 25th Anniversary Gala. Keynote speaker Hillary Rodham Clinton and an evening of celebration honoring: Charlotte Bunch, Jennifer Buffett, and Jacquelyn Zehner. New York, NY.
• April 16, 2013 (7pm): Melody C. Barnes, Policies that Empower: the Journey from Vulnerability to Engagement, Eagleton Institute of Politics. Kirkpatrick Chapel, 81 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, NJ. Free general admission.
• April 11, 2013: CWGL Executive Director Radhika Balakrishnan joined Chris Hayes on his new MSNBC show, All In with Chris Hays. Dr. Balakrishnan appeared on a pnael with former Prime Minister of Greece and President of the Socialist International, George Papandreaou. They dicussed the economic crisis, bailouts, deficits and austerity at the global level. 
• April 9, 2013 (9am-5pm):  Executive Director Radhika Balakrishnan presented at The Politics for Solidarity: Gender, Sexuality, and Transnational Organizing. Barnard Hall, Broadway Ave. and 117th St., New York, NY.
• April 3, 2013 (3-4:15pm): Executive Director Radhika Balakrishnan moderating Local, National and Global Action for Women's Human Rights: Innovative Strategies. Douglass Student Center, Room E.
• March 4-15, 2013: CWGL activities at the 57th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), New York, NY.
• March 8, 2013 (12-1:30pm): Celebrate the Power of Working Women, a political/cultural observance of International Women's Day in solidarity with struggles for equality and justice here and worldwide, Rutgers Labor Education Center, 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick, NJ.
• March 8, 10, 17 & 28, 2013: Screening of Passionate Politics in honor of International Women's Month, New York, NY.
• March 13, 2013 (4:30-6pm):Women Human Rights Defenders: Talking Back & Creating Change, a panel discussion with women human rights defenders advancing women's rights in peace and development in Africa and South Asia. Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building, 1st Floor Conference Room. 
• February 26, 2013 (6:30pm): Premiere Screening of MAKERS: Women Who Make America, Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building, Conference Room, Douglass Campus, New Brunswick, NJ. 
• February 26, 2013 (4pm Reception, 4:30pm Program): Associate Director Savi Bisnath participated in Dialogues with the IWL Director: A Conversation with Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh IWL Consortium Scholar Rescue Fund Fellow, RDJC Building, First Floor Conference Room, Douglass Campus, New Brunswick, NJ. 
• February 27, 2013: Executive Director Radhika Balakrishnan spoke at the Internal Seminar on Macro-Economic Policy and Women at the South African Human Rights Commission in Johannesburg, South Africa.
• February 28- March 1, 2013: Executive Director Radhika Balakrishnan participated in the Post-2015 Global Thematic Consultation on Governance held by the Pan-African Parliament in Midrand, South Africa.