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CWGL Events Archives

  • October 1, 2009 (4:30pm Reception, 5pm Panel): Why MES with Human Rights? Integrating Macro Economics Strategies with Human Rights and Welcome Reception for Radhika Balakrishnan, Executive Director, CWGL, 162 Ryders Lane, Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building, Rutgers University, New Jersey
  • September 25 (10-5pm) & September 26 (12:30-5:15pm), 2009: Radhika Balakrishnan, Executive Director, spoke at The Practice of Human Rights, Klein Conference Room, 66 West 12th Street, Room 510, The New School Graduate Program in International Affairs. Please email duttt111@newschool.edu with questions.
  • September 17, 2009 (1-3pm): Radhika Balakrishnan, Executive Director, Responding to the Global Economic Crisis - Are Human Rights Relevant? NGO side event at the 12th session of the Human Rights Council, Palais des Nations, Room XXII, Geneva
  • September 17, 2009 (1:15-2:30pm): Charlotte Bunch, Founding Director and Senior Scholar, Preparing for CSW 54: Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action, The NGO Committee on the Status of Women, Conference Room C, UNHQ, New York
  • August 8-11, 2009: Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, spoke at the ASA Annual Meeting, The New Politics of Community, San Francisco, CA
  • August 5, 2009: Project Coordinator, Keely Swan, spoke at the 6th Annual Youth Assembly, United Nations, New York, NY
  • July 23, 2009 (6-7:30pm): CWGL co-sponsored the launching of Equal and Indivisible: Crafting Inclusive Shadow Reports for CEDAW, a guide designed to increase the effectiveness of groups reporting on lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights issues in shadow reports to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women. The guide has been developed by the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, the International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific, and the CoC Netherlands. The Church Center, 777 United Nations Plaza (44th St and First Avenue, Manhattan), 2nd Floor. RSVP to Jacqueline Bevilaqua, jbevilaqua@iglhrc.org, no later than 5pm on Monday, July 20th. Click here for flyer.
  • June 25, 2009 (6-8pm): Human Rights Response to the Economic Crisis in the United States, co-sponsored by Marymount Manhattan College, ESCR-Net, Women of Color Policy Network, Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), CWGL and the US Human Rights Network, 777 UN Plaza, NY, NY
  • June 5, 2009 (11-1pm): Side event at the 11th session of the UN Human Rights Council, Combating Maternal Mortality: Why Bring Human Rights into the Picture?, co-sponsored by Action Canada for Population and Development, Averting Maternal Death and Disability Program, Center for Reproductive Rights, the Sexual Rights Initiative*, International Initiative on Maternal Mortality and Human Rights, Center for Women’s Global Leadership, DAWN, Federation for Women and Family Planning (Poland), Human Rights Watch, International Alliance of Women, IPPF, IWRAW Asia Pacific, Ipas, Physicians for Human Rights and the Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Rights. *The SRI is a collaborative project of Action Canada for Population and Development, Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action, Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, Federation for Women and Family Planning (Poland), and Mulabi - Espacio Latinoamericano de Sexualidades y Derechos, Geneva, Switzerland
  • May 29, 2009 (1:15-2:45pm): Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, spoke at a side event, United Nations Reform Process, during the Eighth Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, sponsored by the International Indigenous Women's Forum (FIMI/IIWF), Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC), Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) and Amnesty International, United Nations, Conference Room 4, New York, NY
  • April 15, 2009 (8pm): Women, Peace & Human Security, the 2009 Susan and Michael J. Angelides Lecture given by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate for Work to Ban Landmines and Lifelong Global Activist, Jody Williams, sponsored by the Institute for Women's Leadership, Busch Campus Center, Piscataway, NJ
  • April 15, 2009 (7pm): Violations and Resistance: Human Rights and LGBTQ Activisms throughout the World, CWGL and the Office of Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities, Student Activities Center, College Avenue Campus, New Brunswick, NJ
  • March 26, 2009 (3-5pm): Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, spoke at Jersey Roots, Global Reach: 25 years of the Laurie-New Jersey Chair in Women’s Studies at Douglass College Laurie Chair Legacies: Women’s Rights as Human Rights, Trayes Hall, Douglass Campus Center, New Brunswick, NJ
  • March 2-13, 2009: CWGL's events at the 53rd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women
  • February 24, 2009 (6:30pm): Film screening: Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008; dir. Gini Reticker; 72 minutes), Women's and Gender Studies Department, co-sponsored by the Center for Women's Global Leadership and Douglass Residential College, Art History 100, Douglass Campus, New Brunswick, NJ
  • January 28, 2009 (4:30-6pm): Defending and Promoting Human Rights: Women on the Frontline, Hina Jilani, Former UN Special Representative on Human Rights Defenders, Alexander Library, 4th Fl, Teleconference Lecture Hall, College Avenue Campus, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ http://humanrights.rutgers.edu
  • December 10, 2008 (7:30pm): Charlotte Bunch spoke at Celebration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 60th Anniversary and Human Rights Concert, featuring A Flame in the Dark, Proshansky Auditorium, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
  • November 25-December 10, 2008: 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, dedicated to the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. For more information about this global campaign, visit www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/16days/home.html.
  • November 14-17, 2008: Charlotte Bunch speaking at Power of Movements: The AWID International Forum on Women's Rights and Development, Cape Town, South Africa
  • November 14-17, 2008: CWGL events at Power of Movements: The AWID International Forum on Women's Rights and Development, Cape Town, South Africa
  • November 1-December 31, 2008: Human Rights from Rutgers University Collections sponsored by Rutgers Libraries and the Center for Women’s Global Leadership
  • October 29, 2008 (7pm): Lecture and book signing event with Vivian Stringer, sponsored by Rutgers University Libraries, Douglass Residential College, Institute for Women's Leadership, Center for Women's Global Leadership and the Institute for Research on Women , Multipurpose Room, Cook campus, NJ, To reserve a seat please send email to events@rci.rutgers.edu
  • October 14, 2008: 30th Anniversary Gala & SAGE Awards, SAGE, New York, NY
  • October 7, 2008 (4:30pm): Defending Women's Rights featuring Mary Jane Real, Coordinator of the International Campaign on Women Human Rights Defenders and Visiting Global Associate, sponsored by CWGL and the Institute for Research on Women, Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building, Rutgers University, RSVP to cwgl@igc.org by October 3rd
  • September 23, 2008 (2-5pm): Feminist Task Force-GCAP and the Women of Color Policy Network-NYU presents Women's Tribunal on Poverty and the MDGs, Church Center, NY
  • September 18, 2008 (10:15-11:45am): The NGO Committee on the Status of Women presents, Moving Ahead: Gender Equality Architecture at the United Nations, Church Center, NY, 11th Floor
  • September 18, 2008 (4:30pm): Institute for Research on Women (IRW) Distinguished Lecture Series, Passionate Politics: The Intersection of Gender, Culture, and Human Rights, New Jersey. RSVP for the 3:30pm Reception to IWL@rci.rutgers.edu or by calling 732-932-1463, ext. 675
  • June 17 & 19, 2008: The Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in association with CWGL, The ENOUGH Project, and the Human Rights House of Douglass Residential College, Rutgers University presented The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo in New York City, USA. For more information, click here.
  • June 5-7, 2008: Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, served as a panelist in Critical Global Feminist Projects Today: Strategies for Action, Hitting the Ground Running: Research, Activism, and Leadership for a New Era, National Council on Research for Women (NCRW), NYU Kimmel Center http://www.ncrw.org
  • April 15, 2008: Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, spoke at Taking Stock: Feminism and 60 Years of UDHR, Wellesley College, Massachusetts http://www.wellesley.edu
  • February 25-March 7, 2008: UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), 52nd session, UN Headquarters, NY http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/52sess.htm. For CWGL and other events during the CSW, click here.
  • March 4, 2008: Human Rights for Women ‹–› Human Rights For All: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), convened by CWGL and co-sponsored by NGO Committee on the Status of Women, Amnesty International, AWID, Madre, the Global Fund for Women, and the international coalition of the Women Won't Wait. End Violence Against Women and HIV/AIDS. Now. campaign. For flyer click here.
  • January 24, 2008 (4:30-6:30pm): Addressing Sexual Violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: The Role of Local Activists, co-sponsored by Rights & Democracy, MADRE, CWGL and the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security, Church Center, 777 UN Plaza, 2nd Floor, NY, NY. Click here for flyer.
  • November 10, 2007 (5-6:15pm): Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, spoke at the Thinking Internationally workshop at the National Conference for Women and Girls, Freedom on Our Terms: From Houston 1977 - NY 2007, Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the First National Women's Conference in Houston, Texas 1977, Hunter College, 68th St & Lexington Ave, NY, NY http://www.abzuginstitute.org
  • November 7, 2007 (1:15-2:30pm): New York City Launch of the Yogyakarta Principles on the Application of International Law in Relation to Issues of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, sponsored by Arc International, Center for Women’s Global leadership, Global Rights, Human Rights Watch, IGLHRC, ILGA and ISHR, UN Headquarters, NY Click here for flyer.
  • November 1, 2007 (4:30-6pm): The Erosion of Reproductive Rights in Poland: Policy Implications in the European Union, 2007 Visiting Global Associate, Wanda Nowicka, public lecture, RDJC Building, 162 Ryders Lane, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Click here for flyer.
  • October 25-26, 2007: Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, addressed Activism and Theory: Confronting a Culture of Violence at the Gender, War, and Militarism conference, Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA http://www.sas.upenn.edu/wstudies/gwmconference
  • October 24, 2007 (1-2:30pm): Challenges faced by Women Human Rights Defenders: Showcasing the UN Special Representative on Human Rights Defenders, sponsored by Human Rights First, International Service for Human Rights and the Center for Women's Global Leadership, Presbyterian UN Office Conference Room, 7th Floor, Church Center, 777 UN Plaza (at 44th St). This event also served as the New York launch of "Claiming Rights, Claiming Justice: A Guidebook on Women Human Rights Defenders." Click here for flyer.
  • October 19, 2007 (2-4pm): Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, participated in Where Do We Go From Here? Advocacy and Political Will for Maternal Health at the Women Deliver Conference, Platinum Suite, London, England
  • October 19, 2007 (11am-1pm): Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, discussed Gender Equality Architecture at the UN: Reform and Remain? at the Women Deliver Conference, SG4, London, England
  • October 5-7, 2007: Marching Home: A Conference on the Iraq War and its Consequences for Veterans, Rutgers Against the War and Central Jersey Coalition Against Endless War, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ http://www.marchinghome.org. Click here for flyer.
  • October 2, 2007 (5-6:30pm): Multigenerational Institute on Activism and Women’s Rights Public Reception, RDJC Building, 162 Ryders Lane, New Brunswick, NJ. Click here for flyer.
  • September 25, 2007 (6:30-8pm): Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, served as a panelist in Taking Stock of Human Rights, hosted by Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative and the New York Society for Ethical Culture, New York, NY http://www.eginitiative.org
  • September 19, 2007 (1-3pm): The launching of Claiming Rights, Claiming Justice: A Guidebook on Women Human Rights Defenders, Palais de Nations, Room XXII, Geneva, Switzerland. Click here for flyer.
  • July 4-7, 2007: Changing Lives, Changing Communities: Women's Leadership Making a Difference on HIV&AIDS, International Women's Summit, World YWCA, Nairobi, Kenya http://www.worldywca.org
    CWGL Panels:
    • July 5, 2007 (4:30-6pm): Defending Women-Defending HIV-Related Rights: Exploring Experiences of Activists, Center for Women’s Global Leadership, KICC Plenary Hall B
    • July 6, 2007 (11-12:30pm): Strengthening Resistance: Critical Issues and Innovative Advocacy in HIV and Violence against Women, Center for Women’s Global Leadership, KICC Plenary Annex
  • June 11, 2007 (5:30-8pm): Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, moderated a panel discussion entitled Weaving the Threads: Women's Activism and Leadership in New York City and Africa, hosted by the New York Women's Foundation, 434 West 33rd St, Penthouse Fl. Click here for flyer.
  • May 24, 2007 (11-12:30pm): Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, spoke at the CIVICUS World Assembly, Accountability on Human Security and Gender Equality: Failure or Challenge, held in Glasgow, Scotland http://www.civicusassembly.org
  • May 16, 2007 (6-10pm): CWGL co-sponsored Center for Middle Eastern Studies event honoring 2003 Nobel Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. For more information, please visit http://mideast.rutgers.edu. To view video clips, please visit http://mideast.rutgers.edu/EVENTS/Ebadi/Ebadi-Files/Ebadi-Video/Ebadi-VideoPages/Ebadi-MainVideoPage.html.
  • May 14, 2007 (1:15-2:45pm) Conference Room 9: Panel on Violence against Indigenous Women, Sixth Session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, UN Headquarters, NY. Co-sponsored by FIMI, MADRE, UNIFEM, Amnesty International, CWGL and the Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii
  • April 19, 2007 (5:30-7pm): Cynthia Rothschild, Senior Policy Advisor at CWGL, served as a panelist on The UN and Women's Human Rights: Reconstructing the Gender Architecture, Harvard Law School, Harkness South, co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, the Harvard Law Student Advocates for Human Rights, the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, and the Women and Public Policy Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. For more information, please contact: hrp@law.harvard.edu or call 617-495-9362. Click here for flyer.
  • April 11, 2007: Rally in support of our Rutgers Women's Basketball Team—Take a Stand Against Racism and Sexism on Talk Radio. For more information, click here.
  • March 12-April 5, 2007: UN Human Rights Council, 4th Session, Palais des Nations, Geneva http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil. For CWGL and other events during the HRC, click here.
  • February 26-March 9, 2007: Commission on the Status of Women, 51st Session, UN Headquarters, NY http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/51sess.htm. For CWGL and other events during the CSW, click here.
  • March 26, 2007 (8pm Panel Discussion, 9:30pm Reception): Charlotte Bunch served as moderator for a panel discussion, Trafficking and Migration: Human Rights in Flux, Rutgers Global Initiative, Rutgers Student Center, New Brunswick, NJ http://ruafrica.rutgers.edu/global_initiative/index.html
  • March 5, 2007 (4pm Reception, 4:30pm Panel Discussion): Charlotte Bunch moderated a panel discussion, Women Working Worldwide, featuring international leaders, Institute for Women's Leadership, RDJC Building, Douglass Campus, Rutgers University. For more information, email kratz@rci.rutgers.edu.
  • February 22, 2007 (4-6pm): Charlotte Bunch participated in a panel discussion entitled Global Violence Against Women: The Secretary General's Study, Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Forum, Brooklyn Law School, Subotnick Center, 250 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY Click here for event program.
  • January 30, 2007 (5:30-8pm): Charlotte Bunch spoke at UN Gender Architecture: Where Next and What Could it Mean for UNIFEM?, hosted by the Metropolitan New York Chapter, United States Committee for UNIFEM, United Nations Development Fund for Women, Church Center, 777 UN Plaza (44th & 1st Avenue), 12th Floor, NY. For more information, email Jackie Shapiro, Program Committee Co-Chair, Jacci007@aol.com.
  • January 23, 2007 (8pm): Charlotte Bunch served as a panelist in How Do We Leave Iraq?, sponsored by the Central Jersey Coalition Against Endless War and Rutgers Against War, Graduate Student Lounge, College Avenue, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. For more information, email NoToWar@optonline.net or visit www.AgainstEndlessWar.org.
  • January 23, 2007 (4pm Reception, 4:30pm Lecture): Thundering Ovaries: Myth and Metaphor in the Biology of Women, a lecture by Joan W. Bennett, Associate Vice President for Promoting Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics and Professor, Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, hosted by the Institute for Women's Leadership, Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building, 162 Ryders Lane, New Brunswick, NJ. RSVP by January 19 to pdooley@rci.rutgers.edu or by phone to 732-932-1463, x675.
  • December 7, 2006 (5:30-8pm): Claiming our Rights, Defending our Future: Celebrating 16 Years of 16 Days of Activism, Church Center, 777 UN Plaza, 2nd Floor, New York, NY Click here for flyer with full details. Click here for event photos.
  • December 5, 2006 (7-9pm): CWGL co-sponsored Explaining Immigration: Family Farmer Leaders Speak Out Against Corporate Globalization, Graduate Student Lounge, College Avenue, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. For more information, contact William Kramer at wkramer@rci.rutgers.edu or visit http://www.farmersfightback.org.
  • December 1, 2006 (2pm): Cynthia Rothschild, Senior Policy Advisor, spoke on National AIDS Day at Rutgers University. The discussion, entitled Marking the Crisis: Twenty Five Years Living with HIV/AIDS, 1981-2006, took place at the Graduate Student Lounge on College Avenue. Call 732-932-1711 for details.
  • December 1, 2006 (12:30–2:30pm): Charlotte Bunch spoke on World AIDS Day in Washington, DC. The Global Coalition on Women and AIDS and a diverse group of partners joined forces on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2006, for an afternoon of dialogue and discussion among prominent religious and civil society leaders, women living with HIV, and government representatives focused around how the faith-based community can continue and expand its leadership role, helping to promote and support effective strategies to stop violence and fight AIDS worldwide. For more information, click here. For event flyer, click here.
  • November 27, 2006 (1:15-2:30pm): Charlotte Bunch participated in a panel discussion entitled Galvanizing Action Towards Ending Violence Against Women in Conference Room 4 at United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY
  • November 3, 2006 (1:30-3:30pm): A member of the Open Society Institute's Network Women's Program's Sub-Board, Charlotte Bunch participated in an OSI forum on women human rights defenders, entitled From Frontlines to Headlines—Women Human Rights Defenders http://www.soros.org/initiatives/women/events/defenders_20061103
  • October 30, 2006: Charlotte Bunch served as a panelist at the 2006 Governor’s Conference for Women, hosted by the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs’ Division on Women http://www.nj.gov/dca/2006_womens_conference.shtml
  • October 26, 2006 (4:30-6:30pm), Women's Human Rights in a World of Globalized States: During the week of October 23rd, CWGL convened a Strategic Conversation on Women's Leadership Development with approximately 17 internationally known women's human rights leaders of all generations. As part of the week's program, CWGL, with the support of the Institute for Womens Leadership, hosted a panel featuring the participants in the leadership meeting. Bene Madunagu, a prominent feminist activist and the general coordinator for Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), spoke in her role as Visiting Global Associate (in residence at CWGL through November 7). The evening presented an opportunity for members of the university community and the public to hear an international perspective on women's human rights activism and leadership. 162 Ryders Lane, Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building, Douglass Campus, New Brunswick, NJ. (Event flyer; List of Participants)
  • August 13-18, 2006: CWGL activities at the XVI International AIDS Conference, Toronto, Canada http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/globalcenter/policy/HIVAIDS/toronto.htm
  • May 2006: CWGL activities at the Five Year Review of the UNGASS Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, 31 May - 2 June 2006 http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/globalcenter/policy/HIVAIDS/index.html
  • April 3, 2006 (7pm): CWGL co-sponsored a public lecture by Eleanor Holmes Norton, United States House of Representatives. Congresswoman Holmes Norton is the 2006 Senator Wynona Lipman Chair in Women's Political Leadership of the Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics. Livingston Student Center, 84 Joyce Kilmer Avenue, Piscataway, Livingston Campus, Rutgers University, http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/Programs/Norton.html
  • March 27, 2006 (8pm): Dr. Entisar Mohammad Ariabi from the Delegation of Iraqi Women, Graduate Student Lounge, College Avenue, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, sponsored by Rutgers Against the War (RAW) and the Central Jersey Coalition Against Endless War.
  • November 16, 2005 (7pm): Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, spoke on Gender, Bodily Integrity, and Human Rights, as part of the Human Rights Speaker Series of Rutgers Global Initiative, Cook Douglass Lecture Hall, Room 102, New Brunswick, NJ
  • November 4, 2005 (8-10pm): CWGL co-sponsored "Hidden" Histories of African Homosexualities, a talk with Marc Epprecht, Queens University, Ontario, with introduction by Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome, Brooklyn College, LGBT Center, 208 W. 13th St., NY, NY. For more information, contact Nathan Levitt at nlevitt@iglhrc.org or 212-216-1849 x3.
  • November 3, 2005 (4:30-6pm Lecture, 6-6:30pm Reception): CWGL co-sponsored Queer Matters in Africa: an intellectual history, a talk with Marc Epprecht, Queens University, Ontario, with commentary by Professor Abena Busia and additional remarks by Cary Alan Johnson from the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building, Douglass College, New Brunswick, NJ.
  • October 27-30, 2005: CWGL events at the 10th AWID International Forum on Women's Rights and Development, How Does Change Happen?, Bangkok, Thailand
    CWGL PANEL DISCUSSION
    The Global Impact of Women’s Human Rights Activism and the Future of Leadership Development
    Saturday 11-12:30pm (Chiangmai 2)
    Speakers:
    Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, Center for Women's Global Leadership, moderator
    Mahnaz Afkhami, Executive Director, Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP)
    Zeedah Meierhofer-Mangeli, Acting Director, Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA)
    Geetanjali Misra, Executive Director, Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action (CREA)
    Shamillah Wilson, Young Women and Leadership Theme Manager, Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)
    CWGL CO-SPONSORED ACTIVITIES
    Strategies, Struggles, and Moving Forward: Perspectives on Working to End Violence Against Women
    Friday 2-4:30pm (Ballroom 1, Translation: SP, FR, RU, TH)
    Sponsored by the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) and the Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL). Speakers: Charlotte Bunch, Center for Women's Global Leadership, USA; Everjoice Win, Action Aid, South Africa; Farida Shaheed, Women Living Under Muslim Laws, Pakistan; Perna Sen, Amnesty International; Julia Perez Cervera, CLADEM, Mexico; Lydia Alpizar, AWID, Mexico; and Sunila Abeysekera, INFORM, Sri Lanka
    Who Will Protect the Protectors? Making Activism Safer for Women
    Saturday 11-12:30pm (Rattanakosin, Translation: SP, FR)
    Sponsored by Amnesty International, Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law, and Development, Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL), INFORM (Information Monitor), International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), ISIS-WICCE, and Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML). Speakers: Mary Jane Real, Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development, Philippines and Rauda Morcos, ASWAT, Israel
    Written Out: Sexuality-Baiting and Attacks on Women's Organizing
    Sunday 9:30-11am (Singapore, Translation: SP)
    Sponsored by the Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) and International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC). Speakers: Rauda Morcos, ASWAT, Israel; Cynthia Rothschild, CWGL & IGLHRC, USA; and Sangeeta Budhiraja, IGLHRC, USA.
    CHARLOTTE BUNCH SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
    How can we influence, use and benefit from the UN: A Strategy Session for the next 5 years
    Thursday 2-4:30pm (Ballroom 2, Translation: SP, FR, RU)
    Sponsored by the Association of Women's Rights in Development (AWID)
    Contributing to the UN Secretary General’s study on violence against women: An opportunity for intervention
    Friday 5-6:30pm (Singapore, Translation: SP)
    Sponsored by the Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW)
    Please visit http://www.awid.org/forum for more information.
  • September 28, 2005 (4:15-6:30pm): Global Partners, Global Perspectives, a panel presentation with a local to global call to action to support access to women's health rights, sponsored by the Center for Women's Global Leadership and Planned Parenthood of Central New Jersey (PPCNJ), Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building, Douglass College, New Brunswick, NJ Click here for flyer
  • September 14-16, 2005: 2005 World Summit, United Nations General Assembly High Level Segment on Millennium Review, New York http://www.un.org/summit2005. For CWGL activities, please visit http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/globalcenter/policy/millsummit/index.htm.
  • March 25-26, 2005 (beginning at 10am): Rutgers' First Annual Conference on South Asia, Home and the World: South Asia in Transition, Graduate Student Lounge, College Avenue Campus, Rutgers University, 126 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 http://complit.rutgers.edu/conferences/southasia
  • February 28-March 11, 2005 (Beijing +10): Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), 49th Session, United Nations Headquarters, New York City. For CWGL events, see http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/globalcenter/policy/b10/index.html. For the official site, see http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/Review/english/49sess.htm.
  • March 10, 2005 (6:30pm): GRASSROOTS: Back that AAA...ctivism Up! Come Boycott Social Irresponsibility and get Active. Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards, the authors of GRASSROOTS and MANIFESTA, come to discuss grassroots feminist activism, NJC lounge in the Douglass College Center. FREE EVENT AND FREE FOOD. Co-sponsored by the WCDC, Radigals, Center for Women's Global Leadership, IWL, LLEGO, SEA, DCGA, RU Choice and Amnesty International.
  • February 26, 2005 (6-10pm): Tribal Life and Women's Rights in Iran, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Center for Women's Global Leadership, Department of Africana Studies, American-Iranian Council, Persian Cultural Club. Livingston College Student Center, Rutgers University. For more information, contact 732-445-8444.
  • January 26-31, 2005: World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br
    Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, participated in the following sessions:
    • January 27, 2005: Women's Orientation to the World Social Forum, sponsored by WICEJ, FEMNET, CAFRA, Center for Women's Global Leadership and others.
    • January 28, 2005: Dialogue Between Movements, a seminar to discuss the politics of differences as well as building bridges between movements.
    • January 29, 2005: Women Human Rights Defenders Seminar entitled Defending Women Defending Rights!
    • January 29, 2005: Education and Citizenship: For the right to quality public services for all women and men sponsored by ICAE/REPEM and WICEJ.
    • January 30, 2005: Taking Action for Women's Rights: Beijing+10, MDGs and Beyond, sponsored by DAWN, WEDO, WICEJ and the Center for Women's Global Leadership.
  • October 21, 2004 (4:30-6:30pm): United Nations Day 2004, Women's Rights and Empowerment: The Millennium Development Goals and Gender Equity, address by Executive Director Charlotte Bunch, New Jersey's Honorary UN Day Chair. Recognition Ceremony honoring local New Jersey women who have improved the lives of women and children, Trayes Hall, Douglass College, New Brunswick, NJ. For more information, click here.
  • October 12, 2004 (3pm): The Institute for Women's Leadership, the Department of Women's and Gender Studies, and the Center for Women's Global Leadership invite you to a special presentation event: Why Your Vote Matters for Women's Health Locally and Globally: Find out how U.S. policies affect you and women around the world. Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building, 162 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus, New Brunswick, NJ. Featuring Panelists: Carmen Barroso - (Brazil) Regional Director, International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region; formerly Director of Population Program for the MacArthur Foundation; Pregaluxmi Govender - (South Africa) Former Parliamentarian of South Africa; Fulbright Scholar, Center for Women's Global Leadership; Jeannine LaRue - Senior Vice President, Saint Barnabas Health System, responsible for legislative, regulatory and public affairs for New Jersey's largest healthcare system; President, Executive Women of New Jersey; Susan Wilson - Founder and Executive Coordinator, Network for Family Life Education, Rutgers Center for Applied Psychology; architect of New Jersey's statewide sexuality education program in public schools; and Charlotte Bunch - Founder and Executive Director, Center for Women's Global Leadership, moderator. For more information, call Kristen Pipes at (732) 932-1463 ext. 646, email: kpipes@rci.rutgers.edu. For more information, click here.
  • August 25, 2004 (7-8:30pm) Just before the Republicans hit town: TALKING BACK TO THE BACKLASH: A Forum on Bush's War on Women, The Graduate Center of CUNY - Proshansky Auditorium, 365 Fifth Avenue @ corner of 34th Street. Featuring Laura Flanders, renowned print and radio journalist and editor of the new Feminist Press anthology The W Effect: Bush's War on Women. Other special guests include: Jennifer Baumgardner, Charlotte Bunch, Sean Cahill, Richard Goldstein, Maria Raha, and more…. How are women really being affected by the policymaking of the new millennium? The W Effect uncovers the deadly impact of Bush-era policies in the workplace, in the economy, in the military, in the bedroom, and in other war zones at home and abroad. Booksigning to follow. For more information or to buy the book contact Jessica Roncker at (212) 817-7920 or jroncker@gc.cuny.edu. Free and open to the public
  • June 29, 2004: Women Meet with the UN Deputy-Secretary General to Discuss the Position of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and the Advancement of Women. For report (PDF), click here.
  • June 9, 2004 (6:30pm): Bella Abzug Leadership Institute & Fund, Center for Advancement of Women, Center for Women's Global Leadership, Choices Women's Medical & Mental Health Center & Manhattan Borough President, C. Virginia Fields presented an evening with Linda Stein. For more information, click here.
  • June 8, 2004 (6:30-8:30pm): The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission presented an event in honor of this year's Felipa Awardee, the Gender/Sexuality Rights Association of Taiwan, Sexing Feminism, Sexing Rights: Sexual Rights are Human Rights, with Charlotte Bunch, Center for Women's Global Leadership; Susana Fried, IGLHRC; Pauline Park, NYAGRA; Margaret Satterthwaite, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice; and Members of G/SRAT. For more information, please contact: Stephan Sastrawidjaja, T: 212-216-1278 E: ssastrawidjaja@iglhrc.org.
  • April 2, 2004: Talking and Doing Citizenship, an Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, sponsored by the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, and the Committee to Advance Our Common Purposes (Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs), Rutgers University. Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, gave plenary address http://rci.rutgers.edu/~bjnorman/CCACC/Conference_home.htm
  • March 25, 2004: Women in the Era of Globalization: Power and Gender, Inaugural Conference and L'Hommedieu Lecture, sponsored by Douglass College, Associate Alumnae of Douglass College, Center for Women's Global Leadership, Eagleton Institute, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Institute for Women's Leadership, Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs, Rutgers University Office of the President, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, Douglass College Center, New Brunswick, NJ http://www.douglass.rutgers.edu/globalization
  • March 24, 2004 (11-1pm): The Department of Women's & Gender Studies and the Institute for Research on Women presented a Colloquium on African Women's Health, featuring Bernedette Muthien (Founder and Executive Director, Engender, South Africa) and medical anthropologist Ellen E. Foley (University of Pennsylvania). Julie Livingston (History-Rutgers) moderated the discussion. Co-sponsored by the Departments of African Studies and Anthropology, the Center for African Studies and the Center for Women's Global Leadership, supported by the Rutgers University Research Council and the Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University. Location: Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building, 162 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus, New Brunswick, NJ http://irw.rutgers.edu/programs/AfricanWomensHealth.html
  • February 19, 2004 (5pm): Women, Human Rights, and Development in Nigeria, Hauwa Ibrahim, lead defense counsel for the internationally publicized case of Amina Lawal, a Nigerian woman, who was sentenced to be stoned to death for Zina or adultery under Sharia law. Hauwa Ibrahim and a team of lawyers successfully represented her case to an acquittal by the Sharia Appellate Court in the State of Katsina, Nigeria. Sponsored by the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy in partnership with the Center for African Studies, the Center for Women's Global Leadership, and the Institute for Women's Leadership. Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, 33 Livingston Avenue, Special Events Forum, 1st Floor, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, reception to follow, please RSVP to Jane Sproul at jsproul@rci.rutgers.edu or 732-932-3429 x576.
  • January 16-21, 2004: World Social Forum, India http://wsfindia.org, http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br
    Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, participated in the following sessions:
    • Jan. 14 & 15: Participant in the International Invitational Meeting "Building Solidarity: A Feminist Dialogue" organized by the National Network of Autonomous Women's Groups in India with DAWN, WICEJ, AFM, ISIS, FEMNET, and INFORM
    • January 19: 5-8pm at venue C 78. Seminar: "Crises, Violence and Rights: Finding Human Security in a Globalizing World" sponsored by the National Council for Research on Women
    • January 19: 9-12am, "Peace Through Process: Interactive Discussion," panel coordinated by International Bill of Rights Project and Global Action to Prevent War
    • January 19: 2pm, "Political Bodies - New Emancipating Struggles that Foster a Radical Democracy," panel coordinated by Articulacion Feminist Marcosur
  • November 25-December 10, 2003: 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/16days/home.html
  • December 10, 2003: Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, participated on a panel on Human Rights Ten Years After Vienna: Progress, Challenges and the Role of Key Institutions, Human Rights Day, United Nations, New York
  • December 4, 2003 (4:30pm): An Extraordinary Evening Exploring Life in Iraq Under Occupation, a panel with Amal Al-Khedairy and Nermin Al-Mufti, 162 Ryders Lane, New Brunswick, Douglass Campus, Rutgers University, Conference Room 103 & 104, sponsored by the Women's & Gender Studies Department & the Center for Women's Global Leadership
  • November 17, 2003: The Center for Women's Global Leadership, the Institute for Women's Leadership, and Douglass College at Rutgers University invite you to join the participants of the 2003 International Strategic Directions Consultation for a public program and reception - Symposium & Celebration: FEMINIST ORGANIZING FOR A GLOBAL FUTURE. For more information on the event and the consultation, click here.
  • November 11, 2003: Discussion with Sunila Abeysekera, one of the founding mothers of feminism in South Asia and IWL Visiting Global Associate, 2:30pm, 160 Ryders Lane, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
  • October 8-9, 2003: Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, spoke at Clash and Consensus: Gender and Human Security in a Globalized World, presented by Women's Learning Partnership in cooperation with the Global Fund for Women, John Hopkins University, Washington, DC http://www.learningpartnership.org. The audio of the conference proceedings is available at http://www.learningpartnership.org/events/2003/clashorconsensus.
  • July 6-10, 2003: Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, spoke at Leading Change: The Power to Act, World YWCA, Brisbane, Australia http://www.worldywca.org/WorldCouncil
  • July 3-4, 2003: Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, participated in the IWDA forum, Brisbane, Australia
  • June 20, 2003 (1-3pm): Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, spoke at Women with Disabilities: Opportunities and challenges for women's rights activists in the development of a Convention on the human rights of people with disabilities, UN Secretariat, New York.
  • June 3, 2003 (5:30-8pm): Claiming Sexual Rights: Advocacy in a World of Fundamentalisms, sponsored by the Center for Women's Global Leadership, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), the Law and Culture Society at Columbia University, and the Law and Policy Project of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. Panelists included: Katherine Franke (Welcome), IGLHRC and Law & Culture Society; Charlotte Bunch (Moderator), Center for Women's Global Leadership; Lohana Berkins, Transgender Activist from Argentina, Felipa de Souza Awardee 2003; Ayesha Imam, BAOBAB for Women's Human Rights; and Ali Miller, Mailman School of Public Health, Law and Policy Project. Included a showing of the video "Campaign Against Fundamentalisms." Columbia University School of Law, Jerome Greene Hall, Room 104 (116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, NE Corner).
  • May 29-31, 2003: Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, spoke at the National Council for Research on Women (NCRW) 2003 Annual Conference in collaboration with the Women's Leadership Institute, Mills College, Borders, Babies, and Bombs: A Gendered Reframing of Security, Mills College, Oakland, California. For program details, please visit the NCRW website at http://www.ncrw.org, e-mail ncrw@ncrw.org, or call (1-212) 785-7335, extension 14.
  • April 24, 2003: Women's Experiences and Peacemaking Initiatives in Times of War and Armed Conflict
    4:30pm Reception, 5:00pm Program, Panel Presentation, Trayes Hall B, Douglass Student Center, Douglass College
    • Dr. Fathieh Saudi, Jordanian pediatrician and women's human rights advocate, IWL Visiting Global Associate at the Center for Women's Global Leadership.
    • Radhika Coomaraswamy, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women to the Commission on Human Rights
    • Patricia Guerrero, Founder and Legal Advisor, League of Displaced Women in Colombia, Human Rights Advocate with the Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University
    • Panel Moderator: Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, Center for Women's Global Leadership
    • This was the inaugural event of the new Visiting Global Associates Program established by an endowed gift to the Institute for Women's Leadership by the Ford Foundation.
  • April 15, 2003: Gender & Human Development in South Asia
    1-2:30pm, Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building, Douglass College, First Floor
    Khadijah Haq, Director, Mahbub ul Haq Human Development Centre, sponsored by the Women's & Gender Studies Department & the Center for Women's Global Leadership
  • March 20, 2003: Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, delivered a Wilson's Cat talk at the Palais Wilson. Professor Bunch addressed the issues of Gender and Human Rights ten years after Vienna and after the September 11 events. For more information, see http://www.ichrp.org.
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