CWGL Past Events 2011

2011 Events

December 9-11, 2011: Radhika Balakrishnan, Executive Director, and Marcela Olivera, Visiting Global Associate, spoke at the US Human Rights Network (USHRN) National Human Rights Conference, Los Angeles, CA
December 5, 2011 (10am-1pm): Radhika Balakrishnan, Executive Director, spoke at People at the Centre: Human Rights in Global Economics and Development, A Discussion in Commemoration of the 25th Anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Right to Development, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Conference Room E, North Lawn Building, UN Headquarters, NY. Click here for video of Executive Director Radhika Balakrishnan's presentation.
December 5, 2011 (7:30pm): 3rd annual Human Rights House coffeehouse, NJC lounge, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
December 1, 2011 (6-8:30pm): Savitri Bisnath, Senior Policy Advisor, spoke at From War to Work: Women Building Back Communities, Marymount Manhattan College.
November 17, 2011 (7pm): PASSIONATE POLITICS: The Life and Work of Charlotte Bunch, film screening at the MIX NEW YORK QUEER FILM FESTIVAL, Conversation with Charlotte Bunch and filmmakers following screening, THE MIX FACTORY, 45 Bleeker Street @ Lafayette, New York City, Tickets & Information: David Pavlosky This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ; 212.772.4953. A Joyce Warshow Film, Produced and Directed by Tami Gold, Co-Producer David Pavlosky.
November 2, 2011 (4:30-6pm): Film Screen and Discussion, I Came to Testify, narrated by Matt Damon, produced as part of the groundbreaking "Women, War and Peace" series currently on PBS Television. Alison Bernstein, Director, Institute for Women's Leadership, introduced the film. Comments after screening by Charlotte Bunch, Founding Director and Senior Scholar, Center for Women's Global Leadership. RDJC Building, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
October 26, 2011 (1:30-2:30pm): Teach-in at Occupy Wall Street, sponsored by CWGL, 1 Liberty Plaza, Zuccotti Park, New York, NY
October 25, 2011: Public lecture by Marcela Olivera, Bolivian water rights activist & IWL Visiting Global Associate, RDJC Building, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
October 14, 2011: Executive Director, Radhika Balakrishnan, spoke on a panel entitled "Ensuring Economic Equality for Women in a Global Society," at the National Association of Women Judges Annual Conference, Rutgers Law School, Newark, NJ
September 19, 2011 (4-6pm): Dialogues with the IWL Director: A Conversation with filmmaker Abigail Disney & peace activist Cora Weiss. Moderated by Alison R. Bernstein, IWL. Event co-sponsored by CWGL. RDJC Building, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
September 16, 2011 (4:30-6:30pm): CWGL Public Reception with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, RDJC Building, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
July 15, 2011 (10am-12pm): Founding Director & Senior Scholar, Charlotte Bunch, spoke on a panel entitled "The ICC and Protection of Civilians," a discussion in honor of International Justice Day and the 13th anniversary of the adoption of the Rome Statute, Conference Room 2, North Lawn Building, UN Headquarters, New York, NY
June 24-26, 2011: Executive Director, Radhika Balakrishnan, presented at the 2011 IAFFE Conference, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, China.
June 9, 2011 (6-8pm): CWGL outdoor reception and barbeque for participants of Strategic Conversation on the Intersections of Violence Against Women and Militarism, New Brunswick, NJ
June 7, 2011: Program Coordinator, Margot Baruch, presented at Show Me The Money! – Federal and Local Budgets and Human Rights at the National Forum on the Human Right to Housing, Washington, D.C.
June 6-7, 2011: Executive Director, Radhika Balakrishnan, presented at the Second Annual Meeting of the International Network on Quantitative Methods for Human Rights & Development, New York, NY
May 17-18, 2011: Program Director, Natalia Cardona, participated in the 4th ETO Consortium Conference, Antwerp, Belgium
May 5, 2011 (4-6pm): The Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL), Douglass Residential College and the Institute for Women's Leadership (IWL) invites you for a reception and report back from students on their encounters with the United Nations and the global women's rights movement, Public Forum: Student Advocacy Training on the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building, 162 Ryders Lane, New Brunswick, Douglass Campus, NJ. RSVP to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
April 28-29, 2011: Executive Director, Radhika Balakrishnan, spoke on the economic crisis and human rights panel at the Obama Administration and Human Rights Conference, Washington, DC.
April 14, 2011 (6pm): The Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) hosted the New Jersey & Rutgers University film premiere of Passionate Politics: The Life & Work of Charlotte Bunch, Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building, 162 Ryders Lane, New Brunswick, Douglass Campus, NJ. Reception to follow. Sponsors: Institute for Women’s Leadership, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Institute for Women and Art, SAS Office of International Programs, Douglass Residential College, Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities.
March 26, 2011 (11am-6pm): Program Coordinator, Margot Baruch, spoke at the Radigals Feminist Conference, New Brunswick, NJ
March 18, 2011 (7pm): Program Director, Natalia Cardona, participated on a panel at the west Philadelphia library, Philadelphia, PA
March 7, 2011 (6pm Reception; 6:30pm Program): Screening of Passionate Politics: The Life & Work of Charlotte Bunch. Reservations necessary—call 212.650.3184 or click here, Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, 47-49 East 65th St, New York, NY
February 22-March 4, 2011: CWGL activities at the 55th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, New York, NY
February 16, 2011 (12:30-2pm): Brown Bag Seminar with Prof. Radhika Balakrishnan: Rethinking Macro Economic Strategies from a Human Rights Perspective, The Poverty Group of the Bureau for Development Policy, New York, NY
February 13, 2011 (3:30pm): Premiere Screening of Passionate Politics: The Life & Work of Charlotte Bunch, Held Auditorium, Barnard College, New York, NY. Tickets; Athena Film Festival information
January 27-28, 2011: Executive Director, Radhika Balakrishnan, participated in the Expert meeting on the potential impact of fiscal contraction on those living in extreme poverty, Geneva, Switzerland
January 25, 2011 (2-4pm): Program Director, Natalia Cardona, participated in a moderated webinar on why we need human rights to achieve economic security in the United States, sponsored by the US Human Rights Network and the Human Rights Project at the Urban Justice Center. Click here to register.