2012 Events

• November 25-December 10, 2012: 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, Center for Women's Global Leadership
• December 5, 2012 (5:30-7pm): Using Technology for Social Justice Activism, RDJC Building, First Floor Conference Room, Douglass Campus, New Brunswick, NJ. RSVP to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
• November 13, 2012 (4-6pm): Digitizing Activism: The Visual Culture of Transnational Feminism, Teleconference Lecture Hall, Alexander Library, 4th Floor, College Avenue Campus, New Brunswick, NJ
• November 14, 2012 (7-8:30pm): Drivers for Justice in the Global City, featured Bhairavi Desai, Executive Director, New York Taxi Workers Alliance, Labor Education Center Auditorium (Cook/Douglass Campus), New Brunswick, NJ
• October 31, 2012 (6pm): Honored Farida Shaheed, Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, upon presentation of her report, Women's Cultural Rights, to the General Assembly. Church Center for the United Nations, 777 UN Plaza, New York, NY
• October 31, 2012 (1:15-2:45pm): Executive Director Radhika Balakrishnan served as a panelist at What about Women? Accounting for the Gendered Impact of Foreign Debt, Side Event Organised by APWLD and CWGL during the 67th UN General Assembly, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea to the UN, New York, NY
• October 30, 2012 (9:30-11am): Conflict Prevention and UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women Peace and Security - what's in it for us? A public discussion reflecting on the annual Open Debate in the UN Security Council on Women Peace and Security. Location: 10th floor UN Church Center, 777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY
• October 26, 2012 (3-4pm): Informal Discussion with Dr. Jyoti Sanghera, United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Center for Women's Global Leadership, New Brunswick, NJ
• October 25, 2012 (3-8pm): Program Coordinator Margot Baruch served as a panelist for Dominique Morisseau's play Mend for the Spotlight Human Rights series, organized by the Epic Theatre Ensemble and the Center for International Human Rights at John Jay College in partnership with Lark Play Development Center, John Jay College, Haaren Hall, New York, NY
• October 17, 2012: The Young Feminist Wire hosted the second e-learning session on macroeconomics and women’s rights by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership. 
• October 11, 2012 (7pm): Dare to Dream event, a film screening of the Men and Boys Healing Documentary followed by a panel discussion with male survivors of sexual violence and therapists who have expertise in working with male survivors. Center Hall, Busch Campus Center, Piscataway, NJ
• October 11, 2012 (12:30-2pm): Along with Professor Diane Elson, University of Essex, Executive Director Radhika Balakrishnan participated in a discussion on Macroeconomic Strategies from a Human Rights Perspective: How to use human rights to assess economic policy , sponsored by UN Women, New York, NY
• October 2, 2012 (6pm): Women Aware's Candlelight Vigil, CWGL's Violence against Women Program Coordinator Julie Salthouse and the New Brunswick, NJ community honored Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Monument Square Park, New Brunswick, NJ.
• September 27, 2012 (7pm): Douglass Campus's Speaker Frontline Speaker Series presents Samar Yazbek, Syrian writer and journalist and political exile, author of A Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution.
• September 26, 2012 (5-7pm): Executive Director Radhika Balakrishnan served as a panelist at an event launching the 2012 AWID Forum special issue of Development, published by the Society for International Development (SID), New York, NY
• September 24, 2012 (7-9pm): Nobel Women's Initiative's public panel discussion featured three Nobel Peace Laureates and activists from around the world committed to stopping rape in conflict, New York, NY
• September 24, 2012 (8am): The Young Feminist Wirehosted an e-learning session on macroeconomics and women’s rights by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership. 
• September 20, 2012 (12-3pm): Executive Director 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
• September 13, 2012 (4pm Reception, 4:30-6pm Program): Founding Director and Senior Scholar Charlotte Bunch provided commentary at the film screening of Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock, RDJC Building, First Floor Conference Room, Douglass Campus, New Brunswick, NJ
• July 17, 2012 (1-3pm): Associate Director, Savi Bisnath participated in a panel discussion, MDGII: Incorporation a Human Rights Framework into the Post 2015 Global Development Agenda, during the International Human Rights Funders Group Conference, New York University School of Law, NY
• July 5-6, 2012: Associate Director Savi Bisnath participated in the 2012 United Nations Development Cooperate Forum (DCF), New York, NY
• June 5-8, 2012: Associate Director Savi Bisnath presented at the Southeast Asia Consultation: Using CEDAW to Strengthen Accountability for Women's Human Rights in Development, organized by International Women's Rights Action Watch (IWRAW) Asia Pacific with support from the Center for Women's Global Leadership, Bangkok, Thailand
• May 30, 2012 (6-8pm): Founding Director and Senior Scholar Charlotte Bunch spoke on the Major Activists for Social Justice panel at The Fluidity of Gender: Sculputure by Linda Stein, Flomenhaft Gallery, New York, NY
• May 9, 2012 (4-9pm): Associate Director Savi Bisnath and Founding Director & Senior Scholar Charlotte Bunch both spoke at an in depth session on "Violence against Indigenous Women: 'A life without violence, a life with autonomy,'" at the 11th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, sponsored by the International Indigenous Women's Forum-FIMI, 777 UN Plaza (Church Center), 10th Floor, New York, NY. Flyer in English and Spanish.
• May 2, 2012 (4-6pm): Please join the Center for Women's Global Leadership for a reception and report back from students on their experiences at the UN and the global women's rights movement. Moderated by Dean Litt, DCC Lounge, 2nd Floor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
• April 24, 2012 (10:30-4pm): Visiting Global Associate Marcela Olivera was a conference participant in Environmental Politics in Bolivia Under Evo Morales: Buen Vivir vs. New Extractivism, Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, New York University, New York, NY
• April 19-22, 2012: CWGL activities at the 12th AWID International Forum on Women's Rights and Development, Istanbul, Turkey
• April 16, 2012 (5:15pm): Visiting Global Associate Marcela Olivera spoke on Changing the Flow: Organizing Water Movements in Latin America, Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, Bird Library, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
• April 12-15, 2012: Hispaniola Transnacional II: Cuerpos, productos, culturas y regímenes de movilidad, Center for Latino Arts and Culture, New Brunswick, NJ. Click here for flyer.
• April 2, 2012 (11am): Mary Robinson spoke on Climate Justice, Voorhees Chapel, Douglass Campus. Click here for flyer.
• March 25, 2012 (1:30-2:45pm): Program Coordinator Margot Baruch led a workshop on Making Economics Work for Us: A Human Rights and Feminist Perspective at the Global Social Work Student Conference, New York, NY
• March 23, 2012 (9-4:30pm): Visiting Global Associate Marcela Olivera spoke at Technologies of Knowledge: Imagining Life in the Americas, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
• March 22-23, 2012: Executive Director Radhika Balakrishnan presented on "Economics & Rights: interdisciplinary monitoring approaches" at New Horizons in Economic and Social Rights Monitoring, Madrid, Spain
• March 18, 2012 (3pm): Special presentation of Passionate Politics: The Life and Work of Charlotte Bunch, CINEMAROSA, Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY. Click here for flyer.
• March 18, 2012 (12-1:50pm): Executive Director Radhika Balakrishnan spoke at the Left Forum on Capitalism, Sustainability and Economic Democracy, New York, NY
• March 17, 2012 (3-4:50pm): Visiting Global Associate Marcela Olivera spoke at the Left Forum on Capitalism, Imperial Geopolitics and the Climate Crisis: Where Next for the Climate Justice Movement?, New York, NY
• March 7, 2012 (7pm): Violence Against Women & Militarism: A Dialogue, Douglass Lounge, Douglass Campus Center, 2nd Floor, Douglass Residential College & Center for Women's Global Leadership, New Brunswick, NJ
• March 6, 2012 (6:45pm): Visiting Global Associate Marcela Olivera presented on The Right to Water in the Americas, Auditorium of King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South, NYU, NY, NY
• February 27-March 9, 2012: CWGL activities at the 56th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), New York, NY
• February 27, 2012 (6-8pm): Executive Director Radhika Balakrishnan spoke at Freedom to Occupy? Reclaiming Space and Reinventing Protest, Skylight Room, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Avenue (corner of 34th Street).
• February 16-18, 2012: Visiting Global Associate Marcela Olivera spoke at Making Worlds: An OWS Forum on the Commons, Brooklyn, NY