- October 30, 2014 (3:30-5pm): Radhika Balakrishnan spoke at Debt, Power, and Crisis: Social Stratification and the Inequitable Governance of Financial Markets, New Delhi, India
- October 28, 2014 (3:30pm): Radhika Balakrishnan spoke at Using Human Rights to Assess Economic Policy, New Delhi, India
- October 27, 2014 (1:30-5pm): Radhika Balakrishnan spoke at Rethinking Economic Policy: The Radical Potential of Human Rights, New Delhi, India.
- September 2-3, 2014: Executive Director Radhika Balakrishnan participated in Rights-based governance beyond borders: The role of extraterritorial human rights obligations (ETOs), Bangkok, Thiland.
- May 19-21, 2014: Radhika Balakrishnan and Affiliate James Heintz conducted a two-day training on macroeconomic policy and human rights for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights staff, Geneva, Switzerland
- May 12-16, 2014: Radhika Balakrishnan and Affiliate James Heintz spoke at the Section 5 Committee Meeting, "Human Rights, Gender and Macro-Economic Policy," South African Human Rights Commission.
- April 5-6, 2014: Radhika Balakrishnan participated in "Fostering Inclusive Participation and Effective Contribution of Arab Women in the Public Sphere," Regional Consultation Meeting on Gender Equity in the Arab Region, The Hashemite Kingdom, Jordan.
- April 1-3, 2014: Radhika Balakrishnan participated in a three-day regional seminar on Gender in Conflict and Emergency, Amman, Jordan.
- March 3,2014: Radhika Balakrishnan served as the keynote speaker for Feminist Advocacy in the United Nations, Universidad Metropolitana, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
- February 5, 2014: Radhika Balakrishnan moderated the Briefing on the Global Thematic Consultation on Governance and the Post-2015 Development Framework, Trusteeship Council Chamber, United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY.
- December 13, 2013: Radhika Balakrishnan spoke at pdf Human Rights at the Core of Sustainable and Just Development , United Nations Conference Room Trusteeship Council Chamber, New York, NY.
- December 6-8, 2013: Radhika Balakrishnan spoke at the US Human Rights Network's biannual national conference, Advancing Human Rights 2013: Dignity. Justice. Action., Atlanta, Georgia.
- December 4-5, 2013: Radhika Balakrishnan spoke at "Challenges and Achievements in the Implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for Women and Girls: The Road Ahead," Stakeholders’ Forum. Conference Building, United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY. Concept Note. document Program .
- October 21-24, 2013: Radhika Balakrishnan co-chaired an expert group meeting (EGM) on "Structural and policy constraints in achieving the MDGs for women and girls." Mexico City, Mexico.
- September 27, 2013: Radhika Balakrishnan participated in the workshop pdf Democracy v. A Global Economy: New Challenges and Threats , Columbia University, New York, NY.
- September 24, 2013: Radhika Balakrishnan spoke at Visions and Voices for Human Rights: Integrating Human Rights into the Post-2015 Agenda. Conference Room 7, New Lawn Building, United Nations, New York, NY.
- May 30, 2013 (1-3pm): Radhika Balakrishnan presented at the 23rd session of the pdf UN Human Rights Council on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) & Violence Against Women and Girls , Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.
- February 27, 2013 (12-1pm): Radhika Balakrishnan spoke at the document Internal Seminar on Macro-Economic Policy and Women , 4th Floor, Board Room, Johannesburg, South Africa.
- September 20, 2012 (12-3pm): Rutgers Professor and CWGL Executive Director Dr. Radhika Balakrishnan Selected to Moderate Panel at the 21st Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Geneva, Switzerland.
- December 5, 2011 (10am-1pm): Radhika Balakrishnan spoke at People at the Centre: Human Rights in Global Economics and Development, A Discussion in Commemoration of the 25th Anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Right to Development, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Conference Room E, North Lawn Building, UN Headquarters, NY. Click here for video of Executive Director Radhika Balakrishnan's presentation.
- February 16, 2011 (12:30-2pm): Brown Bag Seminar with Prof. Radhika Balakrishnan: Rethinking Macro Economic Strategies from a Human Rights Perspective, The Poverty Group of the Bureau for Development Policy, New York, NY.
- September 22, 2010 (12-2:30pm): Radhika Balakrishnan, served as rapporteur for the roundtable on poverty and hunger at the 2010 UN Private Sector Forum on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY.
- September 21, 2010: Radhika Balakrishnan participated in a BBC World News television channel special edition of The World Debate programme on the Millennium Development Goals at the United Nations, New York, NY.
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Videos
- March 20, 2016: Feminist Global Advocacy Panel lead by Radhika Balakrishnan, CSW60 side event.
- March 10, 2015: Realizing Gender Equality, Women's Rights and Women's Empowerment within and Beyond the Post 2015 Development Agenda, CSW59 side event.
- February 27, 2014: Radhika Balakrishnan featured in Vienna +20 - Looking Back with Radhika Balakrishnan, AWID.
- April 24, 2013: Feminist Leadership: Transforming Boundaries, student report back from the Women's Rights and Policy Making through the United Nations, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
- April 11, 2013: Radhika Balakrishnan appeared on a panel with former Prime Minister of Greece and President of the Socialist International George Papandreou on Chris Hayes' new MSNBC show in What Obama's Budget Doesn't Get: Growth and Austerity Cannot Coexist, New York, NY.
- February 28-March 1, 2013: Radhika Balakrishnan spoke at Global Meeting of the Post-2015 Governance Consultation identifying key areas and themes of governance in the post-2015 development framework. Scroll to ninth video entitled "Day 1 Roundtable: Regional and Global Governance," Dr. Balakrishnan appears at 57:18. South Africa.
- November 20, 2012: Radhika Balakrishnan interviewed by Laura Flanders in Austerity: A Violation of Human Rights?, GRITtv/The Nation.
- September 20, 2012: Radhika Balakrishnan moderated a panel discussion on women’s economic, social, and cultural rights at the 21st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Geneva, Switzerland.
- March 1, 2012: Radhika Balakrishnan featured in AWID Encounters: Voices, Ideas and Action on Women's Rights, Istanbul, Turkey.
- December 5, 2011: Radhika Balakrishnan spoke with Joseph Stiglitz at People at the Centre: Human Rights in Global Economics and Development, A Discussion in Commemoration of the 25th Anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Right to Development, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Conference Room E, North Lawn Building, UN Headquarters, NY.
- April 28-29, 2011: Radhika Balakrishnan spoke on the Economic Crisis & Human Rights session of the Human Rights & Obama Administration Conference, Washington, DC.
- February 16, 2011: Radhika Balakrishnan in Rethinking Macro Economic Strategies from a Human Rights Perspective Brown Bag Seminar, The Poverty Group of the Bureau for Development Policy, New York, NY.
- 2011: Radhika Balakrishnan in The Right to Food, Gender Equality and Economic Policy.
- September 21, 2010: Radhika Balakrishnan participated in a BBC World News television channel special edition of The World Debate programme on the Millennium Development Goals at the United Nations, New York, NY.
- 2010: Radhika Balakrishnan in US Human Rights Network 2010 Summer Institute, (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)
- September 23, 2009: Radhika Balakrishnan spoke at Global Initiatives Introductory Panel Discussion on Ecologies in the Balance: An Interdisciplinary Conversation, Global Initiatives, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
Podcasts
- Tax Justice and Women's Right, AWID, CESR and CWGL, June 16, 2015
- Transforming Economic Power to Advance Women's Rights and Justice, AWID, Istanbul, Turkey April 2012
- Global NGO Forum on Beijing +15, File Size: 9.59 MB, March 5, 2010
- Radhika Balakrishnan featured in Mayor de Blasio Signs Legislation Increasing Access to Feminine Hygiene Products for Students, Shelter Residents and Inmates, Office of the Mayor, July 13, 2016.
- Arise America's reporter Debbye Turner Bell interviews Radhika Balakrishnan on violence against women in India. Her interview begins at 9 minutes, 55 seconds into the program. Arise News, January 23, 2014
- Radhika Balakrishnan featured in "Krisa Fratar Folk Frihet (The Crisis Deprives People of Freedom)," Klassekampen, November 15, 2013
- Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) interviews Radhika Balakrishnan on deciphering and negotiating the U.S. federal budget from a gender perspective in Sequesters, Cliffs And Cuts: A Women's Rights Perspective on U.S. Federal Budget Negotiations, March 15, 2013
- Al Jazeera's reporter Kristen Saloomey interviews Radhika Balakrishnan in 'One Billion Rising' Against Sexual Violence, February 15, 2013
- Inter Press Service (IPS) interviews Radhika Balakrishnan in The Open and Rocky Road Post-2015, February 1, 2013
- GRITtv Laura Flanders' interviews Radhika Balakrishnan in Austerity: A Violation of Human Rights?, November 20, 2012
- Radhika Balakrishnan interviewed in "Sexuality Policy Watch Newsletter No. 11," SPW, March 2012
- Radhika Balakrishnan interviewed by the Inter Press Service's Cléo Fatoorehchi in "Question and Answer: 'More Women Peacekeepers is not the Solution'" on December 3, 2010
- 16 Days of Activism: Taking on Violence Against Women, Global Fund for Women, November 24, 2010
- From Classrooms to Centre Stage: A Professor Who Speaks for Women by Sakuntala Narsimhan, September 26, 2010
- Law and Disorder Radio speak to Radhika Balakrishnan on her article "Why Human Rights are Indespensable to Financial Regulation" in Flashpoints, April 19, 2010
- The Big Five » Race, Gender and Economic Justice in the U.S., NCRW, March 9, 2010
- UN Non-Govermental Liaison Service (NGLS) interviews Radhika Balakrishnan, January 2010
- Rutgers University Focus Magazine interviews Radhika Balakrishnan in New Director of Center for Women's Global Leadership Brings Economic Perspective to Human Rights Work, November 30, 2009
- The Global Economic Crisis through a Human Rights Lens, UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, HuriTalk Insight Series, Issue 6, May 2009
- pdf Macroeconomic Policies and Reproductive Health and Rights , New York, NY, October 7-8, 2013
- The Task Ahead, 2012 AWID Forum, Istanbul, Turkey, April 22, 2012
- Seminar: New Horizons in Economic and Social Rights Monitoring, Madrid, Spain, March 22-23, 2012
- Macroeconomics and Human Rights, February 2012
- US Human Rights National Membership Conference, Los Angeles, California, December 11, 2011
- Balakrishnan, R. More effort needed to narrow gender pay gap: #tellusatoday, USA Today, April 13, 2016.
- Balakrishnan, R., McGrowan, L., & Waters, C. pdf Transforming Women Work: Policies for an Inclusive Economic Agenda , March 2016.
- Balakrishnan, R., Elson D., Heintz J. Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justice: The radical potential of human rights, Routledge, May 2016.
- Balakrishnan, R. & Heintz, J. How Inequality Threatens all Human Right, openDemocracy, October 29, 2015.
- Balakrishnan, R., Chaves, K., Dworkin, I., James, E., Kauanui, J., Kiel, D., Lewis, B., & Mekerta, S. Obama must end support for Israeli apartheid agaisnt Palestinian Scholars, The Electronic Infada, Spetember 3, 2015
- Balakrishnan, R., Heintz J., & Elson D. What Does Inequality Have to Do With Human Rights?, Political Economy Research Institute, August 2015
- Balakrishnan, R. In an inter-connected world, a US human rights-centered macroeconomic and finanial policy is needed, RightingFinance, July 17, 2015.
- Balakrishnan, R. & Saiz, I. Transforming the development agenda requires more, not less, attention to human rights (Arabic), openDemocracy, September 15, 2014
- Balakrishnan, R. & Heintz, J. Economic Reform is a Human Right: International Law Can Be a Powerful Advocacy Tool for Improving Economic and Social Policy, The Nation, March 13, 2014
- Balakrishnan, R. & Thomas, S. "Gender, Macroeconomic Policy and the Human Rights Approach to Social Protection," in Shirin M. Rai and Georgina Waylen (eds) New Frontiers in Feminist Political Economy, Routledge, 2013
- Balakrishnan, R., Elson, D., Heintz, James. "Public Finance, Maximum Available Resources and Human Rights" in Colin Harvey, Aoife Nolan and Rory O'Connell (eds) Human Rights and Public Finance: Budget Analysis and the Advancement of Economic and Social Rights, Hart Publishing, 2013
- Balakrishnan, R. Macro Policy and the MDGs, paper presented at expert group meeting on structural and policy constraints in achieving the MDGs for women and girls, 2013
- Balakrishnan, R. & Elson, D. pdf The Post-2015 Development Framework and the Realization of Women's Rights and Social Justice , 2012
- Balakrishnan, R. & Heintz, J. Debt, Power, and Crisis: Social Stratification and the Inequitable Governance of Financial Markets, Project MUSE - Volume 64, Number 3, September 2012 American Quarterly, 2012
- Balakrishnan, R. & Elson, D. Economic Policy and Human Rights: Holding Governments to Account, Zed Books, 2011
- Balakrishnan, R., Elson, D. & Heintz, J. Financial Regulation, Capabilities and Human Rights in the US Financial Crisis: The Case of Housing, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 12:1, 153‐168, 2011
- Balakrishnan, R., Elson, D., Heintz, J. & Lusiani, N. Maximum Available Resources & Human Rights: Analytical Report, 2011
- Balakrishnan, R. & Heintz, J. Occupy Wall Street from a Human Rights Lens, The Huffington Post, November 4, 2011
- Balakrishnan, R. & Heintz, J. Corporate Control of Our Democracy: Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, The Huffington Post, July 2010
- Balakrishnan, R. & Heintz, J. Making the International Monetary Fund Accountable to Human Rights, The Huffington Post, April 2010
- Balakrishnan, R., Elson, D. & Patel, R. Rethinking Macro Economic Strategies from a Human Rights Perspective, Development, Volume 53, Number 1, pp. 27-36 (10), March 2010
- Balakrishnan, R. & Heintz, J. Why Human Rights are Indispensable to Financial Regulation, The Huffington Post, March 2010
- Balakrishnan, R., Heintz, J., & Seguino, S. A Human Rights Response to the Economic Crisis in the U.S., 2009
- Balakrishnan, R., Elson, D. & Patel, R. Rethinking Macro Economic Strategies from a Human Rights Perspective: Why MES with Human Rights II (Spanish Translation: Repensando Estrategias Macroeconómicas desde una Perspectiva de Derechos Humanos: Por qué EME y Derechos Humanos II), 2009
- Balakrishnan, R. & Elson, D. The Economic Crisis is a Human Rights Issue, October 16, 2008
- Balakrishnan, R. & Elson, D. Auditing Economic Policy in the Light of Obligations on Economic and Social Rights, 2008
- Balakrishnan, R. Why MES with Human Rights? Integrating Macro Economic Strategies with Human Rights (Spanish Translation: ¿Por qué EME y DERECHOS HUMANOS? Integración de Estrategias Macro Económicas (EME) con Derechos Humanos, 2005
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