Leadership
Development & Women's Human Rights Education
Leadership Development
Strategic Conversations
Since 2000, CWGL has convened Strategic Consultations and Conversations that provide opportunities to examine world situations and to discuss strategies and venues for work on women’s human rights. Given the overwhelmingly positive response to these meetings, the Center decided to continue organizing “strategic conversations” both globally and locally as the core of its leadership development work. This builds on the Center’s history of convening people to think and plan strategically about specific initiatives and also addresses the need expressed by many for spaces where they can re-think how to work in the ever-changing world environment. CWGL sees this as making a further investment in the leadership of the women's human rights movement, which needs such opportunities to craft next steps as well as a way to generate new ideas and strategies. CWGL recently convened a Strategic Conversation on the future of Women's Human Rights Leadership Development. Please click here for a brief description of the meeting.
Women's Global Leadership Institutes
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From 1991 to 2002, the Center for Women's Global Leadership organized Women's Global Leadership Institutes (WGLIs). The annual two-week intensive session involved approximately 24 women representing diverse regions, cultures and interests. To learn more, click on the Institute logo. |
Leadership Development
Resources
Women's Human
Rights Education
Popular Education
Workshops
The
scope of CWGL's human rights education activities and
materials are designed to reach individuals or groups working at
all levels—from those helping women with specific needs and
interests at the grassroots to extensive networks of international
organizing campaigns. Participatory methodologies are used to help
groups explore the meaning of women's rights, beginning with women's
own experiences. In addition to the dozens of presentations and
workshops held each year, CWGL published Local
Action/Global Change: Learning About the Human Rights of Women and
Girls, a comprehensive interactive training manual which covers
a wide spectrum of human rights and is based on the experiences
of women's groups around the world. CWGL also publishes
materials in languages other than English through its Feminist
Translation Project. Finally, CWGL maintains a
resource center which is available for use by scholars, students,
researchers and activists.
Tools and Resources
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Tools
for Women's Advocacy #1: UN Conferences at Work. An
eight-page WICEJ resource that outlines how women are using
the outcomes of the five-year reviews of the United Nations
World Conference on Women (Beijing+5) and the World Summit on
Social Development (WSSD+5) to advance economic and social rights.
http://www.wicej.addr.com/tools.html
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Tools
for Women's Advocacy #2: How Women Are Using the United Nations
World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia
and Related Intolerance (WCAR) to Advance Women’s Human
Rights. An eight-page WICEJ resource with local case studies
and tools for using CEDAW and CERD at the local level. http://www.wicej.addr.com/tools2.html
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