Program Highlights
The Open and Rocky Road Post-2015
Inter Press Service (IPS) interviews CWGL Executive Director Radhika Balakrishnan on gender equality and post-2015.
16 Days Campaign
CWGL would like to thank all campaign participants for the hard work and continued commitment in ending gender-based violence and making this year's campaign a success. We encourage you engage with the campaign in the following ways:
New Resources
CWGL releases its 2011-2012 Annual Report
The Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL) is excited to share with you our 2011-2012 Annual Report. With this report, we are launching a new visual style for all our materials. We look forward to your feedback and comments on our new “look.” We hope you enjoy reading about our accomplishments.
Applying a Human Rights Framework to Macroeconomic Policies (2012)
by Baruch, M. Blog post on CWGL's recent Nexus Brief, which provides an introduction to conducting an economic and social rights aud on economic policy, for the Triple Crsis Blog.
The Post-2015 Development Framework and the Realization of Women’s Rights and Social Justice
by Balakrishnan, R. & Elson, D. This note offers some reflections on the post-2015 development framework, based on our views of the strengths and weaknesses of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) development framework; some key changes since 2000; and some ideas on how to address the challenges of the post-2015 period.
NEXUS: How to Apply a Human Rights Framework to Macroeconomic Strategies
At the UN World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna in 1993, governments recognized that human rights are the primary responsibility of governments. Given this, human rights principles could be used to assess the ways in which economic policies are moving towards the full realization of economic and social rights. However, how does one measure a government's performance on economic and social rights? This brief provides an introduction to conducting an economic and social rights audit on economic policy.
