Announcements

• February 17, 2012: Charlotte Bunch, Founding Director and Senior Scholar, CWGL, featured in UN Women at its First Birthday: Systems and Visibility Growing, More Funding and Civil Society Engagement Needed
• February 6, 2012: Press Release: CWGL Announces New Associate Director
• January 31, 2012: Now available: Center for Women's Global Leadership Annual Report 2010-2011
• January 11, 2012: CWGL named 1 of 14 high-impact nonprofits. Click here for press release and many thanks to our supporters!
• December 15, 2011: ICAN's first MENA regional issue brief: What the Women Say: The Arab Spring and Implications for Women
• November 4, 2011: Huffington Post: Occupy Wall Street from a Human Rights Lens by Radhika Balakrishnan and James Heintz
• November 4, 2011: Charlotte Bunch, CWGL's Founding Director and Senior Scholar, featured in Women's Access to Justice: Addressing Justice Chain Barriers, AWID Friday File
• October 3, 2011: Rights Groups Submit Joint Letter to Congress Demanding a Human Rights Perspective On Budget Decisions: Joint Letter; Press Release
• September 29, 2011: From WEDO: Honoring a Visionary Leader, Wangari Maathai
• July 5, 2011: A Feminist Approach to UN Women, by Margot Baruch, Program Coordinator
• May 9, 2011: CWGL is a partner of Women and Girls Lead, a strategic public media initiative, sponsored by ITVS
• March 11, 2011: Press Release: CWGL Welcomes U.S. Government Acceptance of Economic and Social Rights
• March 4, 2011: Charlotte Bunch, CWGL's Founding Director and Senior Scholar, featured in UN Women pressured to do more with less money, by Megan Rowling
• February 24, 2011: UN Women Celebration Marks Next Stage for GEAR, CWGL
• February 21, 2011: Charlotte Bunch, CWGL's Founding Director and Senior Scholar, featured in U.N.'s New Agency for Women Readies for Takeoff, by Thalif Deen
• February 13, 2011: Premiere Screening of Passionate Politics: The Life & Work of Charlotte Bunch, NYC. Tickets; Athena Film Festival
• January 24, 2011: GEAR Campaign delivers statement at UN Women's first Executive Board Meeting
• January 4, 2011: Beware of Fraudsters Soliciting Personal Information using CWGL's name
• December 22, 2010: Follow-up Letter to Brimmer, Koh and Posner regarding Proposed Actions Following the U.S. Universal Periodic Review
• December 2010: Statement on the killing of Marisela Esobedo Ortiz, Mexico
• December 2010: Human Rights in the United States: The First United Nations Review of US Human Rights Obligations by Margot Baruch, Program Coordinator, featured in IAFFE's Fall 2010 newsletter
• November 18, 2010: CSW 2011 Submission: Civil Society Organizations Call on UN Women to Prioritize Economic and Social Rights
• November 10, 2010: Press Release: United States Must Not Betray Its Commitment to Freedom from Want, Human Rights Groups Say
• November 9, 2010: Launch of Activist's Guide to the Yogyakarta Principles
• October 28, 2010: ELECTION 2010: We Need A Stimulus Package that Includes Women and Builds Human Capital, by Natalia Cardona, Program Director
• October 11, 2010: New CWGL report and video: Body, Economy, Movement: The Global Women’s Movement at the Beijing+15 Review
• The Center for Women’s Global Leadership joins the Rutgers community in mourning the loss of first year student Tyler Clementi. This tragedy is a harsh reminder of the overriding need to treat every individual with the sensitivity, respect, and privacy that they deserve. Our deepest sympathies are extended to Tyler’s family and friends. Our diverse community has lost some of its richness.

  Rutgers Responds:

  • October 11, 2010 (11am-6pm): Come Out, Speak Out: A Teach-In/Speak-Out Event Honoring Tyler Clementi & All Queer/Ally Youth Lost to Bullying, Suicide & Violence, Brower Commons, Rutgers University, 145 College Ave., New Brunswick, NJ. Say something. Learn something. Do something. Facebook; Twitter: follow “comeoutspeakout”; Email.
    
  • October 13, 2010 (5-8pm): The Sin of Homophobia. Screening of "for the BIBLE tells me so", followed by a discussion with Mary Lou Wallner and Dan Karslake. Sponsored by Rutgers Protestant Campus Ministries, The Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities, The Episcopal Campus Ministry at Rutgers. Facebook.
  • October 18, 2010 (8pm): Rutgers Responds: An Evening with Dan Savage & the “It Gets Better” project, Rutgers Student Center, MPR, College Ave, New Brunswick, NJ. Join author, columnist, and activist, Dan Savage, as he talks about his new project, It Gets Better. Sponsored by the Vice President of Student Affairs and the Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities. Check out the video that started it all.
• September 22, 2010: The MDGs: Addressing the enabling environment through the ethical framework of human rights, by Natalia Cardona, Program Director
• September 19, 2010: In memory of Rhonda Copelon (1944-2010)
• August 31, 2010: PRESS RELEASE: US Human Rights Report’s Focus on More Perfect Union Leads to Imperfect Reporting on the Human Rights Situation in the United States
• July 14, 2010: CWGL signs letter to Commissioners and Secretariat staff of the UN Commission on HIV and the Law regarding the advancement women’s sexual and reproductive rights
• July 6, 2010: Margot Baruch, Program Coordinator, contributes to NCRW’s CEDAW Forum
• June 30, 2010: PRESS RELEASE UN Women Born: Civil Society Celebrates Creation of Gender Equality Entity After Four Years of Advocacy
• June 21, 2010: CWGL Announces New Program Director
• June 2, 2010: Statement by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom on the assault by the Israeli military on the Free Gaza Flotilla
• May 13, 2010: Release of International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women of Burma report and short video, Nobel Women’s Initiative
• May 13, 2010: Update on the Commission on the Status of Women by Margot Baruch, Program Coordinator, featured in IAFFE's Spring 2010 newsletter
• May 2, 2010: Founding Director and Senior Scholar, Charlotte Bunch, featured in On the Front Line, SAGE Magazine, Albuquerque Journal
• April 26, 2010: Rights Activist Dis-invited as Keynote Speaker on Violence Against Women Due to Right Wing Pressure, statement by Charlotte Bunch, Center for Women’s Global Leadership, Rutgers University
• April 2010: Making the International Monetary Fund Accountable to Human Rights by Radhika Balakrishnan and James Heintz, The Huffington Post
• April 19, 2010: Executive Director, Radhika Balakrishnan, interviewed on Flashpoints, Law and Disorder Radio
• April 2010: CWGL endorses letter to Rep. Lowey in the US House of Representatives requesting a legislative repeal of the Global Gag Rule through the FY2011 appropriations process
• April 8, 2010: Program Coordinator, Margot Baruch, featured in UN may finally create agency to address women's issues globally by Rebekah Mintzer, MediaGlobal
• March 29, 2010: Why Human Rights are Indispensable to Financial Regulation by Radhika Balakrishnan and James Heintz, The Huffington Post
• March 2010: Charlotte Bunch Women's Human Rights Strategic Opportunities Fund launched
• February 28, 2010: When 'traditional values' are a stick to beat women by Pregs Govender
• February 5, 2010: Civil Society Open Letter to WTO Director General, Pascal Lemy: The impact of trade liberalization on the realization of human rights
• January 2010: NGLS Interviews Radhika Balakrishnan, Executive Director, CWGL
• January 2010: CWGL signs on to Open Letter to the Government of Ukraine Regarding Police Intimidation and Abuse of Sex Workers in Kirovograd, Ukraine and Illegal Arrest and Detention of an Outreach Worker in Kirovograd, Ukraine in September 2009
• January 2010: Beijing+15 by Margot Baruch, Program Coordinator, featured in IAFFE's Fall 2009 newsletter