Leadership Development & Women's Human Rights Education

Leadership Development

Strategic Conversations

Since 2000, CWGL has convened Strategic Consultations and Conversations that provide opportunities to examine world situations and to discuss strategies and venues for work on women’s human rights. Given the overwhelmingly positive response to these meetings, the Center decided to continue organizing “strategic conversations” both globally and locally as the core of its leadership development work. This builds on the Center’s history of convening people to think and plan strategically about specific initiatives and also addresses the need expressed by many for spaces where they can re-think how to work in the ever-changing world environment. CWGL sees this as making a further investment in the leadership of the women's human rights movement, which needs such opportunities to craft next steps as well as a way to generate new ideas and strategies. CWGL recently convened a Strategic Conversation on the future of Women's Human Rights Leadership Development. Please click here for a brief description of the meeting.

Women's Global Leadership Institutes

Leadership Development Resources

• Leadership Development Tools
• CWGL Publications
• Resources
• Organizations that have participated in Women's Global Leadership Institutes
• Institutes and Trainings

Women's Human Rights Education

Popular Education Workshops

The scope of CWGL's human rights education activities and materials are designed to reach individuals or groups working at all levels—from those helping women with specific needs and interests at the grassroots to extensive networks of international organizing campaigns. Participatory methodologies are used to help groups explore the meaning of women's rights, beginning with women's own experiences. In addition to the dozens of presentations and workshops held each year, CWGL published Local Action/Global Change: Learning About the Human Rights of Women and Girls, a comprehensive interactive training manual which covers a wide spectrum of human rights and is based on the experiences of women's groups around the world. CWGL also publishes materials in languages other than English through its Feminist Translation Project. Finally, CWGL maintains a resource center which is available for use by scholars, students, researchers and activists.

Tools and Resources

• Tools for Women's Advocacy #1: UN Conferences at Work. An eight-page WICEJ resource that outlines how women are using the outcomes of the five-year reviews of the United Nations World Conference on Women (Beijing+5) and the World Summit on Social Development (WSSD+5) to advance economic and social rights. http://www.wicej.addr.com/tools.html

• Tools for Women's Advocacy #2: How Women Are Using the United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (WCAR) to Advance Women’s Human Rights. An eight-page WICEJ resource with local case studies
  and tools for using CEDAW and CERD at the local level. http://www.wicej.addr.com/tools2.html