Women's Human Rights Resources

CWGL Archives

CWGL’s archives are available through Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries, based in New Brunswick, NJ. Since CWGL’s founding in 1989, the Center has fostered women's leadership in the area of human rights through women's global leadership institutes, strategic planning activities, international mobilization campaigns, United Nations monitoring, global education endeavors, publications and a resource center. For those interested in CWGL’s past activities and significant involvement in UN world conferences, you can access files by contacting Special Collections directly. Please allow 1-2 days notice before your visit. For the list of files, click here.

Statements

• For statements from CWGL activities at the United Nations, please visit http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/globalcenter/policy/policy.html
• For statements and articles written by Executive Director, Charlotte Bunch, please visit http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/globalcenter/charlotte/articles.html

Collaborations

• Claiming Rights, Claiming Justice: A Guidebook on Women Human Rights Defenders, published by Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development in collaboration with a group of women rights, human rights and sexual health advocates: http://www.defendingwomen-defendingrights.org/pdf2007/book3Neo.pdf
• ‘Yogyakarta Principles’ a Milestone for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights: Experts Set Out Global Standards for Sexual Rights and Gender Equality (Arabic, English, Español, Français, Polski, Български)
• Proceedings of the International Consultation on Women Human Rights Defenders, full report of the International Consultation on Women Human Rights Defenders held on 29 November - 2 December 2005 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. This report documents the discussions and analyses of violations and abuses committed against women human rights defenders through a framework of four key sources of violations: state actors, non-state actors, family and community, sex and sexuality-based attacks. It also contains strategies and recommendations made by the participants to better protect women human rights defenders. http://www.defendingwomen-defendingrights.org/pdf/WHRD-Proceedings.pdf

Background Reading

• Women and Gender: The Evolution of Women Specific Institutions and Gender Integration at the United Nations by Charlotte Bunch
• Integration of Women's Human Rights into the Work of the Special Rapporteurs, published by UNIFEM and prepared by Donna Sullivan, while she was a visiting associate at CWGL
• International Networking for Women's Human Rights, by Charlotte Bunch with Peggy Antrobus, Samantha Frost and Niamh Reilly (From Global Citizen Action edited by Michael Edwards and John Gaventa, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001)
• Women's Human Rights: An Introduction by Charlotte Bunch and Samantha Frost
• International Human Rights Law and Practice: Implications for Women by Florence Butegwa
• Reconceptualizing Violence Against Women as a Development Issue by Qiyamah A. Rahman, graduate of the Center for Women's Global Leadership's 1991 Women's Global Leadership Institute

Research Tools

• 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence
• Organizations working on issues related to women's human rights
• Additional Organizations & Internet Resources
• Universal Human Rights Index of United Nations Documents
• Women and Human Rights Institutes/Trainings
• Women Ink., a project of the International Women’s Tribune Centre
• Women's Human Rights Net: providing comprehensive information and analysis on women's human rights and global issues