CWGL Publications
Now Available
Center for Women's Global Leadership Annual Report 2010-2011
New Meeting Report
The Right to Food, Gender Equality and Economic Policy (December 2011)
Workshop Rapporteur and Writer: Alexandra Spieldoch
Editor: Savi Bisnath
This report is the culmination of a two-day experts meeting, “The Right to Food, Gender Equality and Economic Policy,” which took place on September 16-17, 2011 at the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL). The meeting was organized as a means to contribute to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food’s work on gender equality, including a final report for the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2013. To this end, CWGL brought together economists, researchers and advocates, working from a feminist perspective on various aspects of the food system, to offer analysis and recommendations. |
Publications by executive director, Radhika Balakrishnan
- Balakrishnan, R. & Elson, D., Economic Policy and Human Rights: Holding Governments to Account, Zed Books (2011)
- “Financial Regulation, Capabilities and Human Rights in the US Financial Crisis: The Case of Housing”, coauthored with Diane Elson and James Heintz, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 12:1, 153‐168, 2011
- Balakrishnan, R., Heintz, J., and Seguino, S. A Human Rights Response to the Economic Crisis in the U.S. (2009)
- 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 (2008)
- Balakrishnan, R. & Elson, D. Auditing Economic Policy in the Light of Obligations on Economic and Social Rights (2008)
- 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)
CWGL Briefs
NEXUS: Shaping Feminist Visions in the 21st Century
Making Macroeconomics Work for US: A Feminist Perspective
As the world experiences increasing inequalities and gaps between and within countries, women’s rights organizations are working to challenge current hegemonic systems and develop alternatives for change. Building on feminist economic analyses, the Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) is undertaking the production of periodic briefs - Nexus: Shaping Feminist Visions in the 21st Century - to enhance women’s leadership for the realization of human rights. The briefs aim to both engender analytical and practical approaches to human rights in general, and economic and social rights in particular, as well as strengthen the capacity of feminist and social justice movements.
Brief Number 1 - "Making Macroeconomics Work For US: A Feminist Perspective" - highlights linkages between macroeconomics and human rights in order to better inform discussions about solutions to the current economic crisis in the United States.
CWGL Publications
- Macroeconomics and the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation (2011)
- Intersections of Violence Against Women and Militarism Meeting Report (2011)
- Addressing Gaps in the Defense of Women Human Rights Defenders: A Report on the Strategic Conversation (2011)
- Maximum Available Resources & Human Rights: Analytical Report (2011)
- CWGL Year in Review (2009-2010)
- Body, Economy, Movement: The Global Women's Movement at the Beijing+15 Review (2010)
- Listening to Each Other: A Multigenerational Feminist Dialogue, CREA, Center for Women's Global Leadership and the Youth Coalition (2008), available on CREA's website
- Strengthening Resistance: Confronting Violence Against Women and HIV/AIDS (2006)
- Women Testify: A Planning Guide for Popular Tribunals and Hearings (2005)
- Written Out: How Sexuality is Used to Attack Women's Organizing (2005); Written Out: How Sexuality is Used to Attack Women's Organizing (2000)
- Woman at the Intersection: Indivisible Rights, Identities and Oppressions (Publication) (2002). For accompanying video and study guide, please click here.
- Holding
on to the Promise: Women's Human Rights and the Beijing +5 Review
(2001)
- Feminism in the Muslim World Leadership Institutes: 1998 & 1999 Reports, Center for Women's Global Leadership and Women Living Under Muslim Laws (2000), available on WLUML's website
- Los
derechos de las mujeres son derechos humanos: Crónica de
una movilización mundial (Spanish) (2000)
- Les
voix des femmes et «les droits de l´homme»
(French) (2000)
- Lesbians
Travel the Roads of Feminism Globally/La travesía de las
mujeres lesbianas por el feminismo internacional (English/Spanish)
(2000)
- Local
Action/Global Change: Learning About the Human Rights of Women
and Girls (1999)
- Migrant
Women's Human Rights in G-7 Countries: Organizing Strategies
(1997)
- Without
Reservation: The Beijing Tribunal on Accountability for Women's
Human Rights (1996)
- The
Indivisibility of Women's Human Rights: A Continuing Dialogue
(1995)
- From
Vienna to Beijing: The Copenhagen Hearing on Economic Justice
and Women's Human Rights (1995)
- From
Vienna to Beijing: The Cairo Hearing on Reproductive Health and
Human Rights (1994)
- With
Liberty and Justice for All: Women's Human Rights in the United
States (1994)
- Demanding
Accountability: The Global Campaign and Vienna Tribunal for Women's
Human Rights (1994)
- Testimonies
of the Global Tribunal on Violations of Women's Human Rights
(1994)
- Gender
Violence and Women's Human Rights in Africa: A Symposium (1994)
- International
Campaign for Women's Human Rights: 1992-1993 Report (1993)
- Women,
Violence and Human Rights: 1991 Women's Global Leadership Institute
Report (also available in Spanish) (1992)
- Gender
Violence: A Human Rights and Development Issue (also available
in Spanish and French) (1991)
Videos
- Video: This intriguing video explores the meaning of intersectionality and women's strategies for overcoming oppressions through focusing on highlights of three hearing testimonies: violations in war, conflict and genocide - ethnic Chinese women in Indonesia; violations of bodily integrity and sexuality - Roma women in Serbia; violations on account of migration and immigration - Haitian women immigrants in the Dominican Republic. The video also celebrates the organizing strategies used by women's groups to work against intersectional discrimination. Center for Women's Global Leadership, 2003. (30 minutes)
- Study Guide: A companion video study guide utilizes interactive methodologies to help groups develop strategies for analysis and action by gaining better understanding of intersectionality as presented in the video testimonies and by developing skills to use an intersectional human rights methodology in their work to overcome racism and the multiples oppressions women face. By elmira Nazombe and Bojana Blagojevic, Center for Women's Global Leadership, 2003; 58 pages. ISBN 0-9711412-2-3.
The
Vienna Tribunal highlights the moving personal accounts from
women around the world who testified before a panel of eminent judges
at the "Global Tribunal on Violations of Women's Human Rights"
at the NGO Forum of the World Conference on Human Rights, Vienna
1993. Directed by Gerry Rogers. Produced by Augusta Productions,
in coproduction with the National Film Board of Canada, Studio C
and Atlantic Centre, in association with the Center for Women's
Global Leadership, 1994. (48 minutes)
"Isn't
it revealing that human rights for women should even be discussed?
This film is a tragic testimony of the situation of women in the
world, but it is also hopeful..."
—
Isabelle Allende, author of The House of the Spirits
To
order The Vienna Tribunal: Women's Rights are Human Rights!,
visit http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c172.shtml.
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