Gender Equality Resources

• Watch Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms: 20 Years After Vienna

On Economic and Social Rights

• Feminist Global Advocacy Panel, lead by Faculty Director Radhika Balakrishnan, March 20, 2016

• Feminist Leadership: Transforming Boundaries, April 24, 2013

• What Obama's Budget Doesn't Get: Growth and Austerity Cannot Co-exist, Radhika Balakrishnan appeared on a panel with former Prime Minister of Greece and President of the Socialist International George Papandreou on Chris Hayes' new MSNBC show April 11, 2013

• Global Meeting of the Post-2015 Governance Consultation with Executive Director Radhika Balakrishnan, February 28 - March 1, 2013
  Scroll to ninth video entitled "Day 1 Roundtable: Regional and Global Governance," Radhika Balakrishnan appears at 57:18.

• Austerity: A Violation of Human Rights? Radhika Balakrishnan interviewed by Laura Flanders in GRITtv/The Nation, November 20, 2013

• Panel discussion on women’s economic, social, and cultural rights at the 21st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, September 20, 2013

• UN Women and GEAR Campaign discussion on post-2015 development agenda processes, September 13, 2012

• AWID Encounters: Voices, Ideas and Action on Women's Rights, March 1, 2012

• People at the Centre: Human Rights in Global Economics and Development, December 5, 2011

• Economic Crisis and Human Rights Panel at the Obama Administration and Human Rights Conference with Executive Director Radhika Balakrishnan, April 28-29, 2011

• Rethinking Macro Economic Strategies from a Human Rights Perspective, February 16, 2011

• The Right to Food, Gender Equality and Economic Policy with Executive Director Radhika Balakrishnan, 2011

• The World Debate programme on the Millennium Development Goals, September 21, 2010

• US Human Rights Network 2010 Summer Institute with Executive Director Radhika Balakrishnan, (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4) 2010

• Ecologies in the Balance: An Interdisciplinary Conversation, September 23, 2009

• Economic, Social and Cultural Rights for All, 2008

On Gender-Based Violence

• CWGL Stands in Solidarity with One Billion Rising, 2013

• Strategic Conversation on Militarism: Introduction with Executive Director Radhika Balakrishnan and Founding Director Charlotte Bunch, (español, français) June 9, 2011

• Strategic Conversation on Militarism: 1. Proliferation of Small Arms, (español, français) June 9, 2011

• Strategic Conversation on Militarism: 2. Violence by State Agents with Executive Director Radhika Balakrishnan, (español, français) June 9, 2011

• Strategic Conversation on Militarism: 3. Political violence against women, (español, français) June 9, 2011

• Strategic Conversation on Militarism: 4. Sexual violence in and after conflict, (español, français) June 9, 2011

• Strategic Conversation on Militarism: 5. Bridging women, human rights, and peace movements, (español, français) June 9, 2011

• Feminist Dialogue on Militarism and Military Intervention for the 16 Days Campaign with Executive Director Radhika Balakrishnan and Founding Director Charlotte Bunch, November 29, 2010

• Global Campaign to Stop Killing and Stoning Women, 2008

• Gender and Disability: Violence Against Women, 2008

• Charlotte Bunch Introduces the Violence Against Women series, 2008

• Women's Human Rights Defenders-preventing VAW, 2008

• Where are Women's Human Rights in the MDGs?, 2008

• Measuring the links between violence and women's health, 2008

• Pan African reproductive rights and violence against women, 2008

• Defending the rights of women in Latin America, 2008

• Violence against women prevention in South Africa, 2008

• Preventing VAW, supporting the Human Rights of Girls, YWCA Canada, Corinne Rusch-Drutz, 2008

• Preventing violence against women in Kyrgyzstan, 2008

• Violence Against Women based on gender identity and sexuality, 2008

• violencia contra mujeres y disabilidad, 2008

• CLADEM - violencia contra mujeres, 2008

• Intersections between Culture and Violence Against Women with Founding Director Charlotte Bunch, 2008

• Discrimination - ICHRP with Founding Director Charlotte Bunch, 2008

• Women's leadership in the global arena/What is CWGL? with Founding Director Charlotte Bunch, 2008

• Links between Violence against Women and HIV/Aids, 2008

On Coalition Building

• Passionate Politics: The Life and Work of Charlotte Bunch
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• Women at the Intersection of Racism and Other Oppressions: A Human Rights Hearing Video, 2003

• The Vienna Tribunal: Women's Rights are Human Rights!, 1994

• GRITtv Interview Clip: Charlotte Bunch, 2009

• CEDAW Support Barbara, 2010

• "Movement Building from the Local to the Global" Panel 2, (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4) March 5, 2010

• CEDAW Ratification with Executive Director Radhika Balakrishnan and Founding Director Charlotte Bunch, (Part 2, Part 3, Part 7, Part 8) March 8, 2010

• Roundtable on U.S. Ratification of CEDAW with Executive Director Radhika Balakrishnan and Founding Director Charlotte Bunch, March 8, 2010

• CWGL Anniversary Symposium, (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 ) March 6, 2010

• Ratify CEDAW - End Discrimination Against Women, 2010

• CEDAW, (Gambia, Senegal, Nigeria, Fiji, Brazil) 2010

• Support CEDAW, 2010

• Interview with Founding Director Charlotte Bunch and fellow GEAR Campaign Representatives, (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4) 2010

• WHRD Meeting 2009 - Ana Maria Diaz (2009)

• WHRD Meeting 2009 - Edna and Ngozi, (Part 1, Part 2) 2009

• WHRD Meeting 2009 - Monica and Liz, 2009

• WHRD Meeting 2009 - Ruth, 2009

• The Origins of Others by Toni Morrison

• Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, by Mychal Denzel

• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

• The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks

• Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks

• Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis

• Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi

• Kindred by Octavia Butler

• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

• Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur

• This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color edited by Gloria E. Anzaldúa and Cherríe L. Moraga

• “The Women’s Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements” by Huey P. Newton

• “Sexual Assault: When You’re on the Margins: Can We All Say #MeToo?” by Collier Meyerson

• “The Emancipation of Women” by Thomas Sankara

• https://www.msafropolitan.com – an African global feminism blog written by Minna Salami (and watch for her forthcoming book in 2019, Sensuous Knowledge: A Radical Black Feminist Approach For Everyone)

• Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger by Rebecca Traister (note: also anything written by Traister)

• So you want to talk about race? by Ijeoma Oluo

• Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

• Amateur: A True Story of What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBee

• Redefining Realness by Janet Mock

• Teaching to Transgress by Bell hooks

• Feminism is for Everybody by Bell hooks

• Girl Up by Laura Bates

• How To Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran

• What's a Girl Gotta Do? by Holly Bourne

• What is Feminism? Why do we need It? And Other Big Questions by Bea Appleby and Louise Spilsbury

• Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

• My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem

• We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• Timeline of Major Supreme Court Decisions on Women's Rights

• ACLU Freedom Files: Women's Rights

• Tribute: The Legacy Of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

• Aryeh Neier: Reflections on Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Leadership of the ACLU Women's Rights Project

• The ACLU and Women's Rights: Our Past Successes and Future Challenges (Speech by Emily Martin)

• Women's Equality Day and the 19th Amendment (Speech by Nadine Strossen)

• A new era for girls: Taking stock of 25 years of progress

• Investing in the pathways to employment

• Gender equality data

• GirlForce: Skills, education and training for girls now

• Global annual results report 2020: Gender equality

• Harnessing the power of data for girls: Taking stock and looking ahead to 2030

• UNICEF Gender Action Plan 2018–2021

• Gender-responsive and age-sensitive social protection

Discussing Violence Against Women

• Pamphlet: Know Your Housing Rights: For Survivors of Domestic Violence (available in English and Spanish)

• Fact Sheet: Housing Discrimination and Domestic Violence (available in English and Spanish)

• Fact Sheet: The Rights of Domestic Violence Survivors in Public and Subsidized Housing (available in English and Spanish)

• Fact Sheet: Domestic Violence and Homelessness (available in English and Spanish)

• Fact Sheet: Domestic Violence: Protective Orders and the Role of Police Enforcement

• Model advocacy letter to Public Housing Authority

• Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Alleging Violations of the Human Rights of Jessica Gonzales by the United States of America and the State of Colorado (for background information on police failure to enforce domestic violence laws in the United States)

Discussing Employment

• Pamphlet: Rights of Women Workers (available in English and Spanish)

• Domestic Workers Abused by Diplomats - Case Summaries

• Fact Sheet: Advocates: Health and Safety in New York Nail Salons: Chemicals and the Law

• Brochure: Nail Salon Workers in New York (Korean, Chinese, English, and Spanish)

• Fact Sheet: Human Trafficking: Modern Enslavement of Immigrant Women in the United States

• Fact Sheet: Trafficking and Exploitation of Migrant Domestic Workers by Diplomats and Staff of International Organizations in the United States

• Fact Sheet: Trapped in the Home: Global Trafficking and Exploitation of Migrant Domestic Workers

• Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Behalf of Domestic Workers

• Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Behalf of Undocumented Workers

Discussing Criminal and Juvenile Justice

• Fact Sheet: The Over-Incarceration of Women in the U.S.

• Fact Sheet: Women in Prison, the Link Between Incarceration and Violence, and the Collateral Consequences of Conviction

• Report: A Blueprint for Meeting the Needs of Girls in TYC Custody

• Report: Custody and Control: Conditions of Confinement In New York's Juvenile Prisons for Girls

• Fact Sheet: Custody and Control: Girls in the Juvenile Justice System

• Report: Caught in the Net: The Impact of Drug Policies on Women and Families

Discussing Education

• Title IX and Sexual Assault: Know your Rights and Your College’s Responsibilities

• Fact Sheet: Sex Segregated Schools: Just the Facts

• Fact Sheet: Boys' Brains vs. Girls' Brains: What Sex Segregation Teaches Students

• Article: Venus and Mars in Separate Classrooms? A Report on the Rise of Single-Sex Education in Florida and Around the Country

• Editorial: Bad for Both Boys and Girls (off-site)

• ACLU Comments on the U.S. Department of Education's Proposed Regulations on Single-Sex Education (for background information on single-sex research and the law's requirements)