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What's Next? Money in Our Pockets: COVID Socio-economic Consequences
June 25th, 2020 the Nairobi Commitments/ICPD25: What's Next? Global Conversation series held the second discussion on "Money in Our Pockets: COVID Socio-economic Consequences". CWGL Faculty Director, Radhika Balakrishnan, had the honor of participating in this virtual moderated panel discussion, emphasizing how COVID is a multi-dimensional crisis that has impacted the economy, healthcare, and... -
New Report on Combating Violence against Women Journalists by the UN Special Rapporteur on...
UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Dubravka Šimonović, presented her new report on Combating Violence against Women Journalists and recommendations. Journalism Initiative on Gender-Based Violence webinar in partnership with United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) JiG team's advocacy led to the UN Report on violence against women journalists, authored by the UN Special... -
Webinar: Our Feminist Activism and the Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls
Ten years ago, the UN Human Rights Council created the Working Group on Discrimination against women and girls. Did you know that this is one of the most progressive mechanisms for the protection of women's rights? Let's celebrate the tenth anniversary of this important human rights mechanism together! The Feminist Alliance for Rights (FAR), the Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL), the... -
Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL) welcomes report to end gender-based violence against...
8 July 2020: The call to end gender-based violence (GBV) against women journalists today at the Human Rights Council is welcomed by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership. The report, ‘Combating violence against women journalists’ was officially presented today to the Human Rights Council in Geneva by Dubravka Šimonović, the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and... -
Imagine a Post-COVID-19 City—with Women’s Human Rights”
The Feminist and Women's Movement Action Plan Virtual High-Level Political Forum July 9th, 2020 | 12 PM to 1:30 PM EST Join CWGL tomorrow as our Executive Director, Krishanti Dharmaraj, and Director of Program and Global Advocacy, Melissa Upreti, engage in a high-level panel discussion on women's human rights. Program Description: This panel discussion will challenge us to imagine the... -
Women's Human Rights Education Institute Intensive Virtual Program
Join the Center for Women's Global Leadership in support for our Director of Program and Global Advocacy, Melissa Upreti! Program Description: The Women's Human Rights Education Institute has been offering our flagship WHRI Intensive Institute in international settings since 2004. The WHRI Intensive is a capacity-building program for women's human rights defenders that explores international women's... -
Published Article: The Feminist and Women’s Movement Action Plan (fwMAP): mobilising globally for...
The Center for Women's Global Leadership is pleased to announce the publication of the article 'The Feminist and Women’s Movement Action Plan (fwMAP): mobilising globally for Beijing +25' in the Gender & Development Journal, published by Oxfam for 25 years in partnership with Routledge/Taylor & Francis. The Lead Author is Melissa Upreti, CWGLs Senior Director for Program and Global Advocacy and... -
Nairobi Commitments/ICPD25: What’s Next?
Nairobi Commitments/ICPD25: What’s Next? Strengthening Health Systems Responses to Gender-based Violence: Ensuring Continuity of Essential Health Services & Promoting Equality and Rights 📣Join CWGL, June 10th, 2020 at 10 am EST as our Executive Director, Krishanti Dharmaraj participates in a high-level discussion discussing GBV and the health systems. Join the conversation by following us on... -
Gendered Impact of The COVID -19 Crisis: Holding Governments to Account
Join this webinar to hear what leading feminist economists are saying about the gendered impacts of the crisis, their policy recommendations, and ideas for strategies to hold governments to account. April 16th, 2020 10 AM EST | 7 AM PST | 2 PM GMT | 7:30 PM IST Speaker: James Heintz, Andrew Glyn Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts and an Affiliate Member of the Center for Women's... -
CWGL Statement on International Women's Day 2020
8 March 2020: We believe that women’s rights are human rights. Today, we celebrate the courage of women to rise in the face of adversity, and flourish inspite of conflict at home, in the workplace, in our communities and in the world. Despite women’s ability to rise, we recognize the challenges women have to overcome to be taken seriously and meaningfully included in decision-making processes. We... -
Anya Victoria speaks at launch of Report on "Women's rights in review 25 years after Beijing"
Anya Victoria, the Senior Coordinator of Feminist Alliance for Rights at CWGL was one of the Speakers at the press launch of UN Womens "Women's rights in review 25 years after Beijing" Report in New York City. Speaking alongside UN Women Executive Director, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and others, Anya highlighted her journey as a young activist. "Young feminist activists have always played an... -
UN High Level International Women's Day event to feature Charlotte Bunch
The Founding Director of CWGL, Charlotte Bunch will be a featured Speaker at the 'I am Generation Equality: Realizing women’s rights' High-Level event by UN Women in commemoration of International Women's Day at the UN Headquarters on 6th March 2020. The event will be moderated by Sade Baderinwa of WABC News and consist of two high-level panels which include Speeches by H.E. António Guterres,... -
CSW64 WGL Advisory
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Greetings from the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (WGL). In light of the amendment of the format of the 64th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) and cancellation of all side and parallel events associated with CSW64 as announced by the UN Secretary General on 2 March 2020, WGL wishes to advise the following. As you know, WGL and partners had... -
WGL to convene global dialogue on ending gender-based discrimination and violence in the world of...
New York City [28 February 2020]: The Center for Women’s Global Leadership (WGL) will convene the Global Dialogue on Ending Gender-Based Discrimination and Violence in the world of work on the margins of the annual meeting of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in March 2020. The event will bring together key influencers to witness testimonies from women workers and hear from government... -
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