Susan Bazilli, Director of the International Women’s Rights Project, attended the Rio+20 conference, working with the Women’s Major Group and UN Women. The IWRP prepared a position paper for UN Women on recommendations for engendering the institutional frameworks for sustainable development options and a paper for UNDP Gender and Governance on women and water. The IWRP also co-organized a […]
Richa Sharma has joined us!
January 29, 2013 by
We are very pleased to announce that our new Research Associate, Richa Sharma, has joined us! Richa comes to us from Ottawa with an M.A. in globalization,international development and women’s studies. She has experience working with CIDA and IDRC. She as a BA from the University of Victoria. Most recently, she was working on a project in India on women’s […]
The Struggle for Gender Equality in Mongolia
November 2, 2012 by
In September, the UNFPA – United Nations Population Fund – sponsored a forum for gender equality in Mongolia with MONFEMNET along with the National Committee on Gender Equality. Susan Bazilli, IWRP, was one of the speakers at the forum on national gender machinery and the gender equality law, seen here with Undarya Tumursukh and Jama […]
New Facebook Page
November 2, 2012 by
IWRP has a new Facebook page and we invite you to Like us! – http://www.facebook.com/InternationalWomensRightsProject
Youth Activism in Canada
September 24, 2012 by
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has published a special edition of Our Schools/Our Selves called Power of Youth: Youth and Community-led Activism in Canada. The issue explores youth and grassroots activism across Canada and features an introduction by Brigette DePape. Check out the preface, introduction and contents of the issue here [PDF] Copies of the publication, plus […]
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