Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL)
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Headquarters Location: New Brunswick, NJ
Founded: 1989
Mission: The Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) develops and facilitates women's leadership for women's human rights and social justice worldwide.
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violence against women, women's leadership, women's human rights, social justice, women's global leadership institutes, strategic planning activities, international mobilization campaigns, un monitoring, global education, publications, resource center, 2011
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Radhika Balakrishnan.
Radhika Balakrishnan, Executive Director of the Center for Women's Global Leadership, and Professor, Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, has a Ph.D. in Economics from Rutgers University. Previously, she was Professor of Economics and International Studies at Marymount Manhattan College. She has worked at the Ford Foundation as a program officer in the Asia Regional Program. She is currently the…
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160 Ryders Lane
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The Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) was founded as a project of Douglass College in 1989. Since 1990, CWGL has fostered women's leadership in the area of human rights through women's global leadership institutes, strategic planning activities, international mobilization campaigns, UN monitoring, global education endeavors, publications, and a resource center.
CWGL’s current programmatic areas are: the promotion of women’s leadership, the advancement of feminist perspectives in economic and social rights and the elimination of violence against women, in local, national and international arenas.
CWGL is a unit of International Programs within the School of Arts and Sciences and is a member of the Institute for Women's Leadership (IWL)—a consortium of women's programs at Rutgers University that examines leadership issues and advances women's leadership in education, research, politics, science, the arts, the workplace and the world. The member units of IWL are: the Center for the American Woman and Politics (CAWP), the Center for Women and Work, the Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL), Douglass Residential College, the Institute for Research on Women (IRW), the Institute for Women and Art (IWA), the Office for the Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics, and the Women's and Gender Studies Department.
Expert Reviews of Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL)
Evidence of Impact Summary:
The Center for Women's Global Leadership has played a leading role in raising awareness around issues of violence against women. The organization lead efforts to build global campaigns raising issue awareness and linking gender equity with basic human rights. The 16-Days Campaign, for example ran the span between International Day Against Violence Against Women and International Human Rights Day to symbolically link to two causes. It has also played an integral part in guiding the UN's programming around gender-based violence.See expert comments.
Organization Strengths Summary:
The Center for Women's Global Leadership's (CWGL) strength lies in its strong leadership and vision. The two have been very important for move the organization forward as well as related campaigns. It has also helped to develop women's rights activists through its leadership institutes. One expert points out the strategic strength in CWGL's position within Rutgers University. It places the organization in close proximity to the UN.See expert comments.
Areas for Improvement Summary:
Experts would like to see CWGL expand its scope, if possible. This includes growing its programming as well as furthering its leadership development work. One expert pointed out that the organization could be more comprehensive in the way that it connects social media to its campaigns. They would also do well to ensure that their reputation survives beyond their charismatic leadership.See expert comments.
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CWGL was at the forefront of establishing the '16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence' , a world wide campaign from November 25 - International Day Against Violence Against Women- until December 10 - International Human Rights Day- in order to symbolically link violence against women and human rights and to emphasize that such violence is a violation of human rights. CWGL, and its then ED Charlotte Bunch, was also at the forefront of the GEAR campaign to establish UN Women, in order to make sure there was an Under Secretary General level position at the UN for women's rights, as well as appropriate resources to combat gender based violence and other women's rights issues around the world. | ||
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CWGL played a leading role in the coalition to create UN Women, which in turn has significantly increasing the amount, coherence and grassroots sensitivity of UN programming on violence against women and gender-based violence. CWGL also provides direct training to women leaders around the world | ||
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It's a small organization with a high impact vision, strategy and analysis, primarily through Charlotte Bunch, its founder, who linked the global women's movement to US based activists and brought them all to bear upon the UN and other international organizations. This is particularly because of its location within Rutgers, which allowed it academic freedom and access to faculty and students. But also its proximity to NY, which allowed it to engage with the UN and other international actors. CWGL also led some critical leadership institutes, which further supported some of the leading women's rights activists in the world today. | ||
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The organization was initiated by a visionary individual and brought some key issues onto the global agenda. | ||
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CWGL leads and plays a key role in disseminating information about the '16 Days' Campaign, | ||
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CWGL started and helped coordinate the 16 Days Campaign Against Gender Violence, which has become a global phenomenon. They reached hundreds of thousands of people via this campaign. They have very strong and visionary leadership in Radhika Balakrishnan. | ||
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Two major legacies of CWGL for women of the world are 1) co-leading the GEAR campaign that led to UNIFEM's evolution in the much more robust UN Women [Thank You!!] and 2) spearheading the annual 16 Days of Activism (against VAW) Campaign, a brilliant way to bring significantly more visibility, actions, linkages and solidarity to the diverse and global fight to end violence against women. | ||
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They play a key role as a "convener" and motivator around the 16 days of activism. | ||
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The Center supports women’s leadership by: (i) facilitating and disseminating feminist analyses of economic and social rights and macroeconomic policies in concert with women leaders to better inform the work of civil society organizations and policy makers at the international and national levels; (ii) promoting an end to violence against women through organizing global campaigns; and (iii) building coalitions among women’s and social justice organizations for policy reform at the international and national levels. | ||
Expert Comments: Areas for Improvement
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CWGL needs to be seen as more than just one visionary leader. It has just undergone leadership transitions. At the same time, its unique place and position in bringing together women activists from across the world to create transformative analysis and action should continue, particularly because of its unique location (metaphorically and literally). | ||
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If funding permitted, they could be larger. My sense is that they have to significantly narrow their scope due to limited funds. | ||
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They have a small staff and could do more to engage sustaining supporters. Although housed at Rutgers University, they have to do all their own fundraising and could have more capacity in this area. | ||
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Even though I agree with most of their positions, the fact that it is not a membership organization, i.e. it is not representing (as a democratically elected representative) the voice of many women, makes me find it a bit problematic that it has had so much influence for instance in UN negotiations. | ||
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They could improve by greater dissemination of their actions globally. | ||
Leadership
Radhika Balakrishnan
Executive Director
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