Center for Women’s Global LeadershipAnnual Report 2013-2014

The Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL) envisions a world in which all people are equal and gender equality is systemically realized by the achievement of human rights for all. CWGL strengthens and facilitates women’s leadership for human rights and social justice worldwide. CWGL is based at the School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University.

Programmatic ObjectivesThe Center supports women’s leadership by working to:

• Advance economic and social rights from a feminist perspective;

• Promote an end to gender-based violence and highlight linkages with militarism; and

• Build coalitions and deepen capacities around those urgent issues that are critical to the global women’s movement to secure policy reform at the international and national levels.

This report covers the period from July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014.

© 2014 Center for Women’s Global LeadershipRutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Mission

We are going through very difficult times around the world, heightened levels of inequality, war, the rise of extremist forces, militarism in many forms, and health epidemics, to name a few. It is critical to rethink and advocate for a new global framework that puts human rights at the core.

Gender-based violence, including violence perpetrated by State actors, proliferation of small arms in cases of intimate partner violence, and sexual violence during and after conflict, continues to demand innovative strategies for solutions that challenge militarism. The deepening and widening inequalities within and between countries requires us to work toward an enabling global economic environment based upon greater accountability

and substantive participation by countries large and small. The current path is unsustainable. We, at CWGL, are focusing our attention on the relationship between militarism and gender-based violence, economic and social rights and macroeconomic policy from a feminist perspective, and coalition building around the world to bring our collective voices together to help catalyze change.

Please take a moment to review this annual report covering the period of July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014. With your support, the Center for Women’s Global Leadership can continue with this critical work to advance women’s rights and gender equality. We thank you for your ongoing commitment and ask that you consider making a financial donation to CWGL. Visit http://cwgl.rutgers.edu/support-us to learn more.

Together, we can work for fundamental structural and transformational change to build a more just and sustainable world.

In solidarity,

Radhika Balakrishnan

© Paula Court

Letter from theExecutive Director

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Program Highlights

Promoting an End to Gender-Based Violence & Highlighting Links with Militarism

The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign has had the participation of 5,179 organizations in 187 countries promoting actions and policies for

the elimination of gender-based violence. In 2013, CWGL was able to track the participation of 841 organizations in 111 countries, with global participation seeing a 12% increase from the previous year. CWGL engaged at the 58th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women and other venues with feminist women’s organizations to develop strategies on challenging militarism, strengthening knowledge, and contributing to new analyses on gender-based violence, militarism, security, and economic and social rights. Additionally, CWGL served as a reviewer of country and thematic briefs with the International Civil Society Action Network and funding proposals with the Inter-Agency Programme Appraisal Committee to the UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women, where it is one of two civil society representatives.

Advancing Economic & Social Rights from a Feminist PerspectiveFeminist and social justice activists, policymakers and trainers have benefited from CWGL’s work on macroeconomic policy and economic and social rights. CWGL worked to build the capacities of women’s and social justice groups, including the South African Human Rights Commission and US Human Rights Network, increased popular knowledge and advanced research in the field of feminist analysis of macroeconomics and human rights at Columbia University, New York, the “Women, Power and Politics: The Road to Sustainable to Democracy,” conference held in Norway, as well as through blog posts. CWGL also contributed to research and helped reframe economic policy discussions from a feminist human rights lens at expert meetings organized by OHCHR, the “Expert Group Meeting on Structural and Policy Constraints in Achieving the MDGs for Women and Girls,” organized by UN Women, and the seventh session of the UN Working Group on Discrimination Against Women in Law and in Practice.

Key Resources• Economic Reform is a Human Right: International

Law Can Be a Powerful Advocacy Tool for Improving Economic and Social Policy by Balakrishnan, R. & Heintz, J. The Nation, March 13, 2014.

• Gender, Macroeconomic Policy and the Human Rights Approach to Social Protection by Balakrishnan, R. & Thomas, S. Chapter in Shirin M. Rai and Georgina Waylen (eds) New Frontiers in Feminist Political Economy, Routledge, 2013.

• Public Finance, Maximum Available Resources and Human Rights by Balakrishnan, R. & Elson, D. and Heintz, J. Chapter in Colin Harvey, Aoife Nolan and Rory O’Connell (eds) Human Rights and Public Finance: Budget Analysis and the Advancement of Economic and Social Rights, Hart Publishing, 2013.

For more information, see

the 16 Days Campaign 2013 Analytical Summary!

http://tinyurl.com/nyes9b4

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Building Coalitions & Strengthening CapacityCWGL serves as the global coordinator of the Post 2015 Women’s Coalition, currently composed of over 400 members representing local, national, sub-regional, regional and

international organizations from around the world working, through advocacy and movement building, to challenge and reframe the global development agenda. Members have the opportunity to exchange and develop knowledge, ideas and strategies to push the boundaries of formal debates on development priorities and women’s rights, bring new feminist voices to the table as well as create opportunities for engagement in collective action. CWGL also engaged with the Women’s Human Rights Defenders International Coalition’s advocacy committee which was pivotal in the first resolution on WHRDs in the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee. CWGL works substantively with partners through online discussions and blogs, such as Righting Finance and ESCR-Net’s Working Groups on Women’s ESCR, Economic Policy, and Monitoring ESCR. CWGL collaborated with the Extra Territorial Obligations Consortium, participating in the planning of an international meeting on the right to food and the role of transnational corporations.

Working in Partnership16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign, Global Coordinator • Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), Institutional Member • Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE), Action Council • ESCR- Net Monitoring Work Group, Member • Extraterritorial Obligations (ETO) Consortium, Member • Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP), Supporting Organization • Institute for Women’s Leadership Consortium, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Member • Inter-Agency Programme Appraisal Committee, UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women, NGO Advisor • International Campaign to Stop Rape & Gender Violence in Conflict, Nobel Women’s Initiative (NWI), Advisory Committee • International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN), Associate • International Network for Economic, Social & Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net), Member • International Programs, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Member • National Council for Research on Women (NCRW), Member Organization • NGO Associated with the United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI) • NGO in Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) • The Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CoNGO), Full Member • Post 2015 Women’s Coalition, Global Coordinator • rightingfinance, Steering Committee • US Human Rights Network (USHRN), Member • Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition (WHRD IC), Member

Anita Nayar, United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service; Madeleine Rees, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom; Radhika Balakrishnan, Center for Women’s Global Leadership; and Rini Banerjee, Foundation for a Just Society, “Development, Economic Rights, and Gender-Based Violence: Priorities for Post-2015,” New York, NY, March 10, 2014.

Post 2015 Women’s Coalition exploratory meeting to discuss Steering Commitee composition, New Brunswick, NJ, June 11-12, 2014.

June 23-27, 2014: CWGL co-sponsored “Week of Mobilization: Stop Corporate Impunity,” during the UNHRC 26th session, Geneva, Switzerland. June 16, 2014: CWGL co-sponsored “Human rights and tax policies in the post-2015 development agenda: Towards a transformative partnership?,” UN Headquarters, New York, NY. June 10, 2014: CWGL co-sponsored “Grounding tax policies on human rights law: What does it take?,” Palais de Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. June 4-5, 2014: CWGL and UN Women hosted “Twenty years of the Beijing Platform for Action: Looking back, taking stock, moving forward,” New Brunswick, NJ. May 23, 2014: The 16 Days Campaign hosted a Twitter Chat on Gender & Militarism, as part of Women Peacemakers Program’s social media campaign, “Gender & Militarism: Analyzing the Linkages to Strategize for Peace!”April 29, 2014: CWGL co-hosted “Women’s Rights in the Apparel Industry: Ending Violence, Empowering Voices” with AFL-CIO, Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), Coalition of Labor Union Women, Feminist Majority Foundation, Just Associates, Model Alliance, Moriah Fund and United Students Against Sweatshops, Washington, DC.April 2, 2014: CWGL co-sponsored “Feminist Advocacy for Women’s Rights through the United Nations: Activist Panel,” Mabel Smith Douglass Library, New Brunswick, NJ. March 10-21, 2014: CWGL participated in the 58th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.

Events and co-sponsored events included: Development, Economic Rights, and Gender-Based Violence: Priorities for Post-2015 • Making Unpaid Care Work Count in the Post-2015 Framework: Reflections from the UN Special Rapporteur’s Report on Unpaid Care Work, Poverty and Human Rights • Moving Beyond the MDGs for the Realization of Gender Equality, Women’s Rights and Women’s Empowerment • Bosnia to Syria – Women & Conflict: Sharing Lessons and Strategy • An Integrated Approach to Peach and Security: Ensuring Women’s Rights in Post-Conflict Syria • International Women’s Day Dance Party • Freedom from Want & Fear: Meeting the Challenges for Black Women & Women of Color for Gender Equality, Racial Justice and State Accountability in the Post-2015 Agenda • From Bosnia to Syria: Women Organizing for Peace, Rights and Accountability • Lesbian,

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2013-2014 Events

On April 8, 2014, CWGL organized “Between the Taliban and the Army: Women, Security and Militarization in Pakistan’s Swat Valley,” a talk by IWL Visiting Global Associate Dr. Saba Gul Khattak. Dr. Khattak spoke on community responses to the Pakistani military and the Taliban, the militarization of the Swat Valley and the effects of conflict on women and men, New Brunswick, NJ.

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Bi and Trans Activism: Creative Strategies, Economic and Social Rights and Post 2015 • Building Strategic Alliances for Women Workers’ Rights Post-2015.March 4, 2014: CWGL co-sponsored “International Women’s Day,” with Douglass Residential College, Douglass Global Village, Zimmerli Art Museum, Office of Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance, Intercollegiate Athletics, Office for Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics and Rutgers Hillel, New Brunswick, NJ.December 10, 2013: CWGL co-sponsored “Celebrating the Growing Healthcare is a Human Right Movement: An Evening in Honor of Vermont Human Rights Leader Peg Franzen,” New York, NY.December 10, 2013: CWGL co-sponsored “Rutgers Tribute to Nelson Mandela,” New Brunswick, NJ. November 25-December 10, 2013: CWGL coordinated its annual international 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign. On campus, groups across Rutgers University joined the campaign.

On October 3, 2013, CWGL and Rutgers University hosted “Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms: 20 Years After Vienna.” During the daylong event, participants had the opportunity to engage in rich discussions and explore global issues in women’s rights, poverty and inequality, and human rights, democracy, and the right to development.

• Read full symposium report at http://tinyurl.com/nv6u5dg.

• Watch the keynote address, a nine minute excerpt featuring Anthony Romero from the ACLU, Radhika Balakrishnan from CWGL, and moderated by LaShawn Jefferson from the Ford Foundation, at http://tinyurl.com/khoel6k.

• Watch a forty-one minute synopsis of the daylong proceedings at http://tiny url .com/p8sw3q2. Speakers include: Ejim Dike, US Human Rights Network; Noura Erakat, Temple University Beasley School of Law; Norma Maldonado, Asociacion Raxch’ och Oxlaju Aj; and Bernedette Muthien, Coalition of African Lesbians.

Standing: elmira Nazombe, CWGL, and Kayo Denda, Rutgers University Libraries. Sitting: Lynn Harris, Breakthrough; Joyce Gill-Campbell, Domestic Workers United; and Hera Mir, Manavi, Feminist Advocacy for Womens Rights through the United Nations: Activist Panel, New Brunswick, NJ, April 2, 2014.

September 21, 2013: CWGL, AWID, IBON International, APWLD and Campaign for People’s Goals for Sustainable Development held the People’s General Assembly on Development Justice, New York, NY.August 21, 2013: CWGL collaborated with US Human Rights Network to present the interactive session, “Using Human Rights to Support Your Activism,” New York, NY.

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Reaching New Audiences

CWGL in the News• Savi Bisnath mentioned in “Members from Canton, Potsdam Attending AAUW Convention this Weekend,” North

Country NOW, April 25, 2014.• Savi Bisnath featured in “Building Strategic Alliances For Women Workers’ Rights Post 2015: The Role Of Macroeconomic

Policy,” AWID, April 18, 2014.• Dr. Saba Gul Khattak’s talk, Between the Taliban and the Army: Women, Security and Militarization in Pakistan’s Swat

Valley, featured in “Researcher Elaborates Relationship between Taliban, Pakistan Army,” The Daily Targum, April 8, 2014.• Radhika Balakrishnan and James Heintz mentioned in “Economics Daily Digest: What Colleges Can Give Back,” Daily

Kos, March 19, 2014.• Radhika Balakrishnan and James Heintz wrote “Economic Reform is a Human Right: International Law Can Be a

Powerful Advocacy Tool for Improving Economic and Social Policy,” The Nation, March 13, 2014.• Radhika Balakrishan featured in “Vienna +20 - Looking Back with Radhika Balakrishnan,” AWID, February 27, 2014.• Radhika Balakrishnan interviewed on Arise America, Arise News, January 23, 2014.• Charlotte Bunch and James Heintz quoted in “Post-2015 Agenda Must Address Structural Causes of Gender Inequality,

Say Stakeholders,” MediaGlobal, December 9, 2013.• Zarin Hamid quoted in “Douglass Library Hosts 16-Day Exhibit on Gender-Based Violence,” The Daily Targum,

November 26, 2013.• Savi Bisnath quoted in “Journalists Can Help Curb Gender-Based Violence,” CPJ, November 22, 2013.• Radhika Balakrishnan featured in “Krisa Fratar Folk Frihet (The Crisis Deprives People of Freedom),” Klassekampen,

November 15, 2013.

16 Days Campaign in the NewsAfricanHealthMagazine•AfricaontheBlog•AfriqueJet•AllAfrica•AnglicanCommunionNewsService•AsianAmericanPress•AustinDailyHerald•BeloitDailyNews•BizCommunity•BroadwayWorld•BusinessGhana•Canada.com•Care2•CarrickTimes•Channel7DailyNews•ChannelsTV•ChristianToday•CommissionontheStatusofWomenBlog•CowichanNews•Crikey•CSINews•DailyMaverick•DailyTimes-Pakistan•DriotwichSpaAdvertiser•DVIDS•eNewsChannelAfrica•E-Pao•EpiscopalNewsService•Ethiosports•ExpressTribune•EyeWitnessNews•FijiBroadcastingCorporation•FIGO-InternationalFederationofGynecologyandObstetrics•GayCityNews•GhanaNewsAgency•GlobalVoicesOnline•HaitiLibre•HaysPost•HeraldNet•HerefordTimes•HuffingtonPost•IndependentOnline•Inquirer-CebuDailyNews•InsideOttawaValley•InternationalBusinessTimes•IOLNews•IrishExaminer•IRRAWADDY•ITNewsOnline•JakartaPost•JamaicaObserver•KirkentillochHerald•KSBClassicCountry•KULR8News•LatinamericaPress•LeGlobaliste•LeinsterLeader•LeitrimObserver•LimerickPost•LusakaTimes•Mail&Guardian•MancunianMatters•ManicaPost•MaraviPost•MayoAdvertiser•MediaGlobalNews•MedicineHatNews•MENAFN.com•MilanoCenter•MilingavieandBearsdenHerald•MooreChampion•MUMediaUpdate•MuswellbrookChronicle•NagalandPost•NelsonMail•NewEra•NewIndiaTimes•News24•NewVision•NewsWales•NigerianTribune•NovaNewsNow•OpenDemocracy•Oye!Times•PakObserver•PakTribune•ParkesChampionPost•PoliticsWeb•Polity•PretoriaNews•PRWeb•QueenslandTimes•RadioAustralia•RedditchandAlcesterAdvertiser•RedditchStandard•ReliefWeb•ReutersFoundation•RHRealityCheck•RichmondNews•RighttoEducate•RutgersDailyTargum•SABCNews•Saiv•SantaClaritaMagazine•SCVNews•SolomonStar•SouthAfrica.info•SouthAfrica-TheGoodNews•SpyGhana•StabroekNews•StyleIcons•SudanTribune•SudanVision•SunStarCebu•SWRadioAfrica•syracuse.com•TaipeiTimes•TaxJustice•TCPalm•TenterfieldStar•TheCourier•TheDailyAdvertiser•TheDailyNews•TheDailyObserver•TheExpressTribunewiththeInternationalNewYorkTimes•TheFijiTimes•TheGazette•TheGuardian•TheHimalayanTimes•TheHindu•TheInternationalNews•TheJet•TheLeader•TheLoganReporter•TheMalayMailOnline•TheMississippiPress•TheMorungExpress•TheNamibian•TheNation•TheNewAge•TheNewSchool•TheNews-Pakistan•TheObserver•TheProwersJournal•TheQueenslandTimes•TheRidgeNews•TheShuttle•TheSouthernReporter•TheStarOnline•TheSundayIndependent•TheSwaziObserver•TheTimesofCentralAsia&thePacific•TheTimesofIndia•TheVoice•TheWestmorlandGazette•TheWitness•TheYarmouthCountyVanguard•TheZimbabweStandard•ThisisLancashire•TimeforEquality•TIMESLive•TimesofSwaziland•TimesofZambia•UnitedNationsNewsCenter•UnitedNationsRegionalInformationalCenterforWesternEurope&CIS•UpsideDownWorld•USAToday•Voxy.co.nz•WesternAdvocate•WeWillSpeakOut•WickedLocal•WomenNewsNetwork•ZambiaDailyMail•ZimbabweIndependent•ZoutNet

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Reaching New Audiences

Select Staff Speaking EngagementsJune 24-26, 2014: Savi Bisnath spoke at Linking social struggles: Can the path towards human rights compliant, holistic and sustainable food systems serve to unify struggles?, Switzerland.May 19-21, 2014: Radhika Balakrishnan and James Heintz conducted a two-day training on macroeconomic policy and human rights for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights staff, Switzerland.May 12-16, 2014: Radhika Balakrishnan and James Heintz spoke at the Section 5 Committee Meeting, Human Rights, Gender and Macro-Economic Policy, South African Human Rights Commission, South Africa.April 26, 2014: Savi Bisnath gave the keynote address, Women’s Leadership, Women’s Rights, and the Role of the Academy, at the American Association of University Women New York State Convention, NY.April 5-6, 2014: Radhika Balakrishnan participated in Fostering Inclusive Participation and Effective Contribution of Arab Women in the Public Sphere, Regional Consultation Meeting on Gender Equity in the Arab Region, The Hashemite Kingdom, Jordan.March 3, 2014: Radhika Balakrishnan served as the keynote speaker for Feminist Advocacy in the United Nations, Universidad Metropolitana, Puerto Rico.February 12, 2014: Savi Bisnath participated in the Women’s Leadership Conference 2014, Lean In and Reach Out, NJ.February 5, 2014: Radhika Balakrishnan moderated the Briefing on the Global Thematic Consultation on Governance and the Post-2015 Development Framework, United Nations, NY. December 13, 2013: Radhika Balakrishnan spoke at Human Rights at the Core of Sustainable and Just Development, United Nations, NY.December 12, 2013: Savi Bisnath participated as a panelist at the Sixth Session of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development

Goals: Human Rights, the Right to Development and Global Governance, on behalf of the Human Rights Caucus, and delivered the joint statement Human Rights, Necessary for the Achievement of Sustainable Development, United Nations, NY.December 6-8, 2013: Radhika Balakrishnan spoke at the US Human Rights Network’s biannual national conference, Advancing Human Rights 2013: Dignity. Justice. Action., Georgia.December 4-5, 2013: Radhika Balakrishnan spoke at Challenges and Achievements in the Implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for Women and Girls: The Road Ahead, Stakeholders’ Forum, United Nations, NY.November 25, 2013: Zarin Hamid spoke at Engaging Outside the Campus: How is Activism and Civic Engagement Feminist?, NJ.November 14-15, 2013: Radhika Balakrishnan spoke at Women, Power and Politics: The Road to Sustainable Democracy, Norway.September 27, 3013: Radhika Balakrishnan spoke at Democracy v. A Global Economy: New Challenges and Threats, NY.September 24, 2013: Radhika Balakrishnan spoke at Visions and Voices for Human Rights: Integrating Human Rights into the Post-2015 Agenda, United Nations, NY.

Social Media• In the past year, CWGL’s Twitter followers have increased

by 56%, Facebook by 43%, and Tumblr by 186.3%.• The Vienna+20 symposium’s hashtag, #CWGLVie20,

was used in close to 2,000 tweets, reaching over 50,000 people from countries such as Indonesia, South Africa, and Mexico.

• The 16 Days Campaign’s Take Action Kit was downloaded 60,705 times, with 153 hard copies mailed to organizations in every region of the world. CWGL also hosted “16 Blogs for 16 Days” during the Campaign, which brought together diverse voices on pivotal issues related to gender-based violence.

• The Post 2015 Women’s Coalition’s listserv grew by 215% with wider global representation. In addition, the Coalition’s Twitter followers have also grown by 153%.

Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona, UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights; Shahra Razavi, UN Women; Deepta Chopra, Institute of Development Studies; and Radhika Balakrishnan, Center for Women’s Global Leadership at “Making Unpaid Care Work Count in the Post-2015 Framework,” New York, NY, March 11, 2014.

For over twenty years, CWGL has been actively engaged at the UN and has been instrumental in building and strengthening generations of advocates to promote international policy and institutional changes. Every March, the Center joins with activists from around the world in promoting women’s rights and gender equality at the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), which is dedicated to gender equality and the advancement of women. In 2014, the CSW reviewed challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls. A diverse group of 15 Rutgers University students took advantage of the unique opportunity

to gain a global perspective on the policy aspects of feminist activism through the course, Feminist Advocacy for Women’s Rights through the United Nations. Led by Professor Radhika Balakrishnan, students acted as a learning community and met and discussed advocacy strategies with US and international activists. They spent four days in New York City attending official government sessions and participating in workshops led by civil society organizations from around the world. Students reflected on their experiences and developed their critical analyses of global feminist advocacy as well as their activist goals. The course ended with a student-led interactive public forum, “No More Beads for Development,” to share their new experiences with the broader Rutgers community.Watch video highlights from previous courses at http://tinyurl.com/kh5huzf!

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Student Mariel Quintana with her group presentation on grassroots mobilizationsof women’s labor rights, No More Beads for Development student report back event, New Brunswick, NJ, April 30, 2014.

Training New Leaders

Feminist Advocacy for Women’s Rights through the United Nations course participants, No More Beads for Development student report back event, New Brunswick, NJ, April 30, 2014.

SupportersThe Center for Women’s Global Leadership gratefully acknowledges the contributions of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and:

• Anonymous (Charitable Trust)

• Ford Foundation

• Foundation for a Just Society

CWGL would also like to thank our generous individual donors to the Fund for Women’s Rights and Global Justice and the Charlotte Bunch Women’s Human Rights Strategic Opportunities Fund

StaffRadhika Balakrishnan, PhDExecutive Director & Professor, Women’s Gender StudiesZarin HamidProgram Coordinator, Gender-Based ViolenceWilliam HamiltonAdministrative Director Aretha Oliver CraytonOffice ManagerLucy V. VidalInformation & Communication Director

AffiliatesDiane Elson, PhD, University of EssexJames Heintz, PhD, Professor, and Associate Director, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst elmira Nazombe, ConsultantEconomic and Social RightsSelamawit Tesfaye, CoordinatorPost 2015 Women’s Coalition

Interns & VolunteersSamantha Dugan, SAS, Rutgers University Juhi Farooqui, SAS, Rutgers UniversityEugenio Frias-Pardo, VolunteerJade Huynh, University of PennsylvaniaHanaa Lakhani, SAS, Rutgers UniversityAalekhya Malladi, Columbia UniversitySrividya Malladi, RBS, Rutgers UniversityDina Mansour, SAS, Rutgers UniversityAshley Polukard, SAS, Rutgers UniversityMarielQuintana,SAS,RutgersUniversityAparna Shankar, SAS, Rutgers UniversityShamama Siddiqi, SAS, Rutgers UniversityKeith Sikora, SAS, Rutgers UniversityRBS= Rutgers Business School SAS=School of Arts and Science

Acknowledgments

Interns & Volunteers: Ashley Polukard; Samantha Dugan; Eugenio Frias-Pardo; Juhi Farooqui; and Dina Mansour, May 2014.

Working with CWGL was a transformative experience that equipped me with the tools and awareness needed to pursue a career in international feminist advocacy... I am incredibly thankful for the staff’s support and inspired by their passion for social justice. Because of my incredible experience at CWGL this summer, I hope to work for a feminist NGO upon graduation.- Jade Huynh, Intern, Summer 2014

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