New Board Member: Andrea Sobko

Introducing IWRP’s newest Board Member, Andrea Sobko, to the UN Commission on the Status of women and the Canadian Mission to the UN in March 2018.

Mary Robinson Foundation + IWRP

IWRP working with the Mary Robinson Foundation on Climate Justice to enhance our theory of change, ensure that grassroots women get to the UN climate conferences, and to undertake research on the relationship of violence against women to climate change. March 2018.

Right to Play

In March, IWRP concluded its partnership with Right to Play, advising them on their organization wide gender equality policy, strategy, and action plan, their sexual harassment policy, and incorporating gender into play based learning. As part of the field mission, IWRP spent a week working with the Right to Play team in Tanzania in December […]

Queen’s Young Leaders Award Programme Fellowship awarded to IWRP’s Ishita Aggarwal

We are thrilled to announce that IWRP Research Associate Ishita Aggarwal has just been awarded the Queen’s Young Leaders Award Programme Fellowship. We are very proud of her! —- Ishita has been with IWRP for 3 years now. She has also been an Access and Equity Student Blogger at U of T Student Life Blog, Founding Member […]

Vancouver Women’s Forum on Peace and Security on the Korean Peninsula

On January 16, 2018, as Foreign Ministers from twenty nations gathered in Vancouver to discuss security and stability on the Korean Peninsula, an international delegation of sixteen women representing feminist peace movements from Asia, Europe and North America convened in Vancouver. Our objective was to urge the Foreign Ministers to prepare the table for a […]