Gender Events
Strategies to Promote Gender Equity in Developing Countries: Lessons, Challenges, and Opportunities
April 26, 2007 // 8:30am — 1:00pm
Global Health Initiative
The Woodrow Wilson Center International Center for Scholars and the Inter-American Foundation are pleased to present a half-day conference to share perspectives, experiences, and lessons regarding the best ways to promote gender equity and increase development effectiveness
Environmental Film Festival Screening: Maquilapolis: City of Factories
March 20, 2007 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
ECSP hosts a screening and discussion of Maquilapolis: City of Factories. The film travels to Tijuana, Mexico, where Lourdes, Yesenia, and Carmen are three of many women fighting for better wages and conditions that will not irreparably harm the environment in which they live.
The Role of Women and Healthy Families: Global Perspectives of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers
December 07, 2006 // 2:30pm — 4:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
Poverty, population, and contraception are complex issues closely related to the rights of women around the world. The fall edition of WorldView, the magazine of the National Peace Corps Association, examines how these issues impact poorer communities in the developing world.
The Population Institute's 27th Annual Global Media Awards
December 05, 2006 // 9:00am — 4:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
The ECSP Report was recently named the winner of the Population Institute's 27th Annual Global Media Award for Best Population Journal. The 11th edition of the ECSP Report received the award for promoting dialogue on the connections among environment, health, and population dynamics and their links to conflict, human insecurity, and foreign policy.
Book Discussion: The Other Half of Gender: Men's Issues in Development
October 23, 2006 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
Gender studies have traditionally focused on women and girls, paying little attention to the attitudes and behaviors of men. But a new book from the World Bank, The Other Half of Gender: Men's Issues in Development, attempts to bring the gender and development debate full circle.
Young Males and Masculinity in Sub-Saharan Africa: HIV/AIDS, Conflict, and Violence
April 03, 2006 // 3:00pm — 5:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
Drawing on literature and interviews with young men in Botswana, Nigeria, South Africa, and Uganda, a new World Bank report co-authored by Gary Barker examines the construction of masculinity in sub-Saharan Africa and its links to HIV/AIDS, conflict, and violence, including gender-based violence.
Book Launch: The Red Riviera: Gender, Tourism and Postsocialism on the Black Sea
December 06, 2005 // 1:30am — 3:00pm
European Studies
with Kristen Ghodsee, Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, Bowdoin College and current Wilson Center Fellow
Islam, Gender, and Reproductive Health: Part 6 of 6
September 15, 2005 // 9:00am — 11:00am
Environmental Change and Security Program
The sixth and final meeting in the Islam, Gender, and Reproductive Health series focused on public perception and understanding of sexual health, particularly HIV/AIDS, in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regions.
Live Webcast--Building for the Future: Women's Role in Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction
September 13, 2005 // 8:30am — 1:15pm
Middle East Program
Sanam Anderlini, Independent Consultant on Gender, Peace, and Security Issues; Cheryl Benard, Senior Political Analyst and Director of the Initiative for Middle Eastern Youth, RAND Corporation; Rosalind Boyd, Senior Research Associate, Centre for Developing-Area Studies (CDAS), McGill University; Eulalie Nibizi, President, Burundi Trade Union, Bujumbura, Burundi; Ala Noori Talabani, Member of the Iraqi Interim National Assembly, Baghdad, Iraq; Jenni Williams, Director, Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), Bulwayo, Zimbabwe.This event is cosponsored with the Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity.
Islam, Gender and Reproductive Health: Part 5 of 6
June 08, 2005 // 9:00am — 11:00am
Middle East Program
Dr. Angel Foster discusses gender-based violence in Tunisia and Jordan, focusing on community-based efforts in these countries to address honor killings and domestic violence This event is co-sponsored by ECSP, and supported by USAID's Office of Population and Reproductive Health and the Interagency Gender Working Group.