Charlotte Bunch

Statements

• May 12, 2009: Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, quoted in We are the ones, by Rosemary Belcher, openDemocracy
• April 20, 2009: A Feminist Civil Society Response to the UN Secretary General’s Campaign to End Violence against Women, Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, Center for Women’s Global Leadership
• February 28, 2009: Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, quoted in Highland Park mayor to lead U.S. delegation to U.N. panel, by Tom Hayden, Star-Ledger http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-12/1235798712139510.xml&coll=1
• February 26, 2009: Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, quoted in RIGHTS: U.N. Flunking on Gender Empowerment, Women Say, by Thalif Deen, IPS-Inter Press Service http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45903
• September 18, 2008: Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, quoted in DEVELOPMENT: Huge Gender Gap Between Rhetoric and Reality, by Thalif Deen, IPS-Inter Press Service http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43927
• July 4, 2008: Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, quoted in U.N. Lacks Muscle to Fight Sexual Abuse in Peacekeeping, by Thalif Deen, IPS-Inter Press Service http://www.asiantribune.com/?q=node/12046
• February 22, 2008: Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, quoted in RIGHTS: Gender Equality Gets a Drop of the Funding Bucket, by Thalif Deen, IPS-Inter Press Service http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41315
• January 9, 2008: Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, quoted in For Women, Leaning Doesn't Make For Leading, by Miren Gutierrez, IPS-Inter Press Service http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40723
• November 20, 2007: Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, quoted in An Inexplicable UN Blind Spot: Strengthening Women, by Barbara Crossette, United Nations Association of the United States of America and the Business Council for the United Nations
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• September 20, 2007: Integration of Gender into the Human Rights Council, Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, presentation delivered at UN Human Rights Council, Geneva Interactive Panel
• May 16, 2007: CWGL co-sponsored Center for Middle Eastern Studies event honoring 2003 Nobel Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, spoke on the panel. To view video clips, please visit http://mideast.rutgers.edu/EVENTS/Ebadi/Ebadi-Files/Ebadi-Video/Ebadi-VideoPages/Ebadi-MainVideoPage.html.
• March 13, 2007: Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, quoted in Proposed U.N. Women's Agency Gains Key Ally, by Thalif Deen, Inter Press Service News Agency http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=36889
• February 14, 2007: Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, quoted in NGOs Campaign for New U.N. Women's Agency, by Thalif Deen, Inter Press Service News Agency http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=36570
• November 24, 2006: Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, interviewed in Women and the United Nations Today, a radio program distributed and co-produced internationally to member stations on three continents through Canadian radio syndicate WINGS - Women’s International News Gathering Service http://womennewsnetwork.podbean.com/2006/11/24/women-and-the-united-nations-today
• November 24, 2006: Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, quoted in U.N. Women Primed for Stronger, Central Agency by Bojana Stoparic, WeNews correspondent http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/2972/context/archive
• June 2006: Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, quoted in United Nations: Post-War Peace Building Still a Boys Club, by Thalif Deen in Terraviva EUROPE http://www.ipsterraviva.net/Europe/article.aspx?id=3505
• June 23, 2005: Civil Society Hearings with the GA on the 2005 UN World Summit, Freedom to Live in Dignity (Human Rights) Cluster. Presentation by Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, Center for Women’s Global Leadership
• March 17, 2005: ECOSOC Roundtable 5: Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. This speech was given by Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, as part of a panel organized by UNIFEM to look at what contribution the Millennium Summit +5 Review, to be held in September in New York, could make to forwarding gender equality and women’s empowerment in the context of the Beijing +10 Review recently concluded in New York. Click here for flyer
• March 2004: International Women's Day: Where are we in 2004?, US Committee for UNIFEM Lunch, speech by Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, Center for Women's Global Leadership
• August 19, 2003: Attack on UN in Baghdad Escalates Cycle of Violence Making Multilateral Response More Urgent, statement by Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, Center for Women's Global Leadership

Articles

• Listen Up: UN Must Hear Women on Violence by Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, published in On The Issues Magazine, Spring 2009 edition
• August 2006: Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, and Senior Policy Advisor, Cynthia Rothschild, have written an article on the Human Rights Council in a new publication on UN Reform, UN Reform: What's in it for Women?, edited by Mavic Cabrera-Balleza, Tina Johnson and Liane Schalatek and published by the International Women’s Tribune Center and the Heinrich Böll Foundation. This article is an overview of the Council and some of the concerns and interests of the women’s human rights community, such as preservation of the special procedures and of NGO access. To read Human Rights Council: Women Monitor Advances and Note Concerns, click here. To read full publication, please visit http://www.boell.org/docs/Boell_IWTC_Gender+UNReform_final.pdf.
• A Feminist Human Rights Lens on Human Security, article by Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, March 2004
• Human Rights Dialogue: Violence Against Women, Series 2, Number 10 (Fall 2003), Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. Impunity and Women’s Rights in Ciudad Juárez: Lydia Alpízar explains how women’s organizations are responding to the systematic killings of women in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. In From Ciudad Juárez to the World, Charlotte Bunch notes that their efforts have opened doors for the human rights movement to address other important issues. http://www.cceia.org/resources/publications/dialogue/2_10/index.html
• Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, and elmira Nazombe, former Program Director, are featured in Journeys that Opened up the World, Rutgers University Press, October 2003. For more information and to order a copy, see http://165.230.98.36/acatalog/__Journeys_that_Opened_up_the_World__1608.html#2316
• Whose Security?, article by Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, published in the September 23, 2002 issue of The Nation

Interviews

• Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, interviewed in Women's Movements on GRITtv with Laura Flanders http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2009/03/10/womens-movements
• Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, interviewed in Women and the United Nations Today, a radio program distributed and co-produced internationally to member stations on three continents through Canadian radio syndicate WINGS - Women’s International News Gathering Service http://womennewsnetwork.podbean.com/2006/11/24/women-and-the-united-nations-today
• Charlotte Bunch is a featured human rights defender in Stories, part of Amnesty International's Stop Violence Against Women Campaign http://web.amnesty.org/actforwomen/stories-index-eng
• Is human security a useful concept for achieving gender justice, human rights and development? An interview with Bernedette Muthien, a South African gender and peace studies academic, and Charlotte Bunch, an American gender and human rights academic, exploring the usefulness of “human security” as a tool for furthering human rights, women’s security and human development, September 2004, AWID http://www.awid.org/go.php?list=analysis&prefix=analysis&item=00204
• What are the implications of a rights based approach for the struggle against violence against women? An Interview with Charlotte Bunch, February 2004, WHRnet http://www.whrnet.org/docs/interview-bunch-0402.html

Videos

• Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, on "Femicide: The Killing of Women and Girls" from After the Montreal Massacre by Gerry Rogers http://citizen.nfb.ca/node/1007

Events and Speaking Engagements

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