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• February 5, 2010: Civil Society Open Letter to WTO Director General, Pascal Lemy: The impact of trade liberalization on the realization of human rights
• January 2010: NGLS Interviews Radhika Balakrishnan, Executive Director, CWGL
• January 2010: Beijing+15 by Margot Baruch, Program Coordinator, featured in IAFFE's Fall 2009 newsletter
• December 10, 2009: Executive Director, Radhika Balakrishnan, shares her thoughts on Human Rights Day
• November 30, 2009: CWGL's new executive director, Radhika Balakrishnan, interviewed in Rutgers University Focus Magazine
• November 24, 2009: Women Nobel Peace Laureates and Leaders of Women’s Rights Organizations Urge US Secretary of State Clinton to Condemn Violence Against Women and Human Rights Violations Under Honduran Coup, press release and letter
• November 11, 2009: Claiming Justice, Claiming Rights: A Guidebook on Women Human Rights Defenders is now available in Arabic
• November 6, 2009: Demand action on CEDAW now! sponsored by WIDE
• November 4, 2009: CWGL signed on to the United States Working Group on Ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
• October 13, 2009: Elinor Ostrom breaks the Nobel mould by Kevin Gallagher, Guardian, UK
• September 30, 2009: CWGL statement at Human Rights Council at annual session on gender integration
• September 24, 2009: Letter from new Executive Director, Radhika Balakrishnan
• September 18, 2009: Charlotte Bunch, Founding Director and Senior Scholar, was interviewed by Jeb Sharp of PRI's The World. To listen, visit The World.
• September 14, 2009: CWGL GEAR Press Release
• September 14, 2009: U.N. Approves Long-Awaited New Women's Agency by Thalif Deen, IPS
  
• September 5, 2009: U.N. May Shelve Creation of New Women's Body by Thalif Deen, IPS
• August 25, 2009: Statement on women and youth health and rights, promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights in US foreign policy, signed by 50 HIV/AIDS, sexual and reproductive health rights, human rights and faith-based organizations
• August 13, 2009: Statement in Support of Mary Robinson, Presidential Medal of Honor Awardee, by the Women's Human Rights Defenders International Coalition
• July 17, 2009: Iran - Women Human Rights Defender Shadi Sadr Arrested
• July 17, 2009: Invitation for applications for fellowships with the Georgetown Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program for women's rights lawyers in U.S. and in Africa
• July 16, 2009: Human rights activist Natalia Estemirova murdered in Russia
• July 7, 2009: PhD Scholarship in Refugee Youth Identity and Wellbeing, La Trobe Refugee Research Centre, La Trobe University
• July 2, 2009: India Court Decriminalises Gay Sex: Delhi’s High court ruled that homosexual sex among consenting adults is not a crime and read down the infamous Section 377, which penalized people with imprisonment for consensual same sex sexual relations. This ruling marks an historic moment not only for Indian citizens but for LGBTQ and sexual rights activists worldwide.
• June 2009: A Human Rights Response to the Economic Crisis in the U.S. written by Radhika Balakrishnan, James Heintz, and Stephanie Seguino
• May 19, 2009: We Mark the Passing of Helvi Sipila, International Women's Rights Activist, Anne S. Walker, International Women's Tribune Centre
• May 19, 2009: 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Theme Announcement
• May 12, 2009: Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, quoted in We are the ones, by Rosemary Belcher, openDemocracy
• April 29, 2009: Listen Up: UN Must Hear Women on Violence by Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, published in On The Issues Magazine, Spring 2009 edition
• April 20, 2009: A Feminist Civil Society Response to the UN Secretary General’s Campaign to End Violence against Women, Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, Center for Women’s Global Leadership
• April 7, 2009: WLUML statement on the Combating Defamation of Religions resolution
• April 2, 2009: The Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies (CSBR) announces the 2nd CSBR Sexuality Institute
• April 2, 2009: Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice accepting applications for the 2009 Women Peacemakers program
• March 30, 2009: Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, quoted in DEVELOPMENT: Global Coalition Backs New U.N. Gender Body, by Thalif Deen, IPS
  
• March 26, 2009: CWGL Announces New Executive Director
• March 12, 2009: Sign the declaration Africa for Women's Rights
• March 10, 2009: Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, interviewed in Women's Movements on GRITtv with Laura Flanders
• March 8, 2009: WHRDIC International Women's Day Statement
• February 28, 2009: Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, quoted in Highland Park mayor to lead U.S. delegation to U.N. panel, by Tom Hayden, Star-Ledger
• February 26, 2009: Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, quoted in RIGHTS: U.N. Flunking on Gender Empowerment, Women Say, by Thalif Deen, IPS-Inter Press Service
• February 26, 2009: CWGL Events at the 53rd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
• January 29, 2009: International Training on LGBT and Human Rights sponsored by RFSL-The Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights
• January 28, 2009: CWGL endorses WLUML letter about the harassment of women’s human rights defender, Ghada Jamsheer
• January 21, 2009: Call for Submissions: The Sexual Rights Initiative (SRI): 6th round of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) by February 27, 2009
• January 21, 2009: Call for application: Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery by March 31, 2009
• January 13, 2009: Call for stories in celebration of the 30th anniversary of CEDAW
• January 12, 2009: URGENT: Women Human Rights Defender Disfigured and Murdered
• January 7, 2009: Middle Eastern Women's Issues, Debates, and Priorities Special Issue - NWSA Journal - National Women Studies Association, Call for papers by January 16, 2009
• January 5, 2009: Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) Coordinating Group requests nominations for experts to join the SVRI Coordinating Group, send to svri@mrc.ac.za by January 27, 2009
• January 5, 2009: CWGL signs onto WLP's demand for protection and guarantee of Shirin Ebadi's civil and political rights