From Nairobi to Beijing +20 – 30 Years of Feminist Activism!

Susan Bazilli’s PhD thesis is now available on line. The film “Exploring the Route from Nairobi to Beijing +20: feminist activist reflections on rights advocacy” can be found on Youtube here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm-cegLFvaM&feature=youtu.be and the written thesis can be found here https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0378528

Congratulations Ishita Aggarwal

Congratulations! ?IWRP’s Ishita Aggarwal was awarded the Queen’s Young Leaders Award Programme Fellowship in June 2018 – here she is at Buckingham Palace with the Queen and other awardees from all over the globe!

Welcome Georgia Coles

We welcome Georgia Coles who has just joined IWRP as our newest Research Assistant. She has a major in Global Development Studies and a minor in Women’s Studies from Queen’s University.  Georgia has worked in Uganda and will be able to contribute to our work there as well as other research projects.

Herstory Website

Fantastic resource – the herstory of women, law and development – in this new website.   http://www.wld-history.net/

Visit by Sizani Ngubane

In March 2018 IWRP was honoured to host Sizani Ngubane, Director of the Rural Women’s Movement (KZN) from South Africa. Sizani won the Woman of Distinction award this year at the UN CSW. IWRP spent a week with Sizani in New York at the UN. We hosted her in Ottawa, where she was introduced in […]