Caroline Kennedy for Women's Rights in Japan
Caroline Kennedy has recently been placed in the spotlight as a potential US Ambassador to Japan. In light of that announcement, The Wilson Center’s Shihoko Goto wrote an article discussing the...
View ArticleHow Caroline Kennedy Could Make a Difference in Japan
A strong, politically savvy woman is just what Japan and the United States need to strengthen relations on both sides of the Pacific.Caroline Kennedy, who is in line for the post of U.S. ambassador to...
View ArticlePOSTPONED: Director's Forum: "Peace at Last: Closing the Chapter of...
Please note this event has been postponed. Please check back in coming months for additional information. Directions: Directions to the Wilson Center
View ArticleWoodrow Wilson and the Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reflection
It has been one hundred years since Woodrow Wilson stood as the leader of the United States, but his commitment to democracy and academia live on with the work and programs of the Woodrow Wilson...
View ArticleBuilding BRICS: Human Rights in Today’s Emerging Economic Powers
Director of the Global Women’s Leadership Initiative, Rangita de Silva de Alwis, recently spoke at a UCLA School of School of Law’s Journal of International Affair symposium titled “Building BRICS:...
View ArticleAdvancing Women's Leadership in the Americas
Dr. de Silva de Alwis, Director of the Global Women’s Leadership Initiative, gave the keynote address at a reception celebrating International Women’s Day at the Canadian Embassy on March 7th. Dr. de...
View ArticleChina Gender and Law Expert Group Roundtable
Earlier this year, on March 16, 2013, the Women in Public Service Project at the Wilson Center hosted a roundtable in China in partnership with the Ford Foundation and the Wellesley Center for...
View ArticleWomen Inspire Innovation
On Wednesday, April 10, 2013 the Embassy of Switzerland and the Global Women’s Leadership Initiative jointly co-hosted “Bridging the Gender Gap in the Knowledge Economy,” an expert conference on...
View Article22nd Annual Daniel S. Sanders Lecture
On April 16, 2013, Director of the Global Women’s Leadership Institute, Rangita de Silva de Alwis, was invited to present at the 22nd Annual Daniel S. Sanders Peace and Social Justice Memorial lecture...
View ArticleWomen’s Participation: The Making of the Tunisian Constitution
On April 25, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholar’s Global Women’s Leadership Initiative (GWLI), UN Women, and the Ministry of Women’s Affairs in Tunisia convened a Regional Strategic...
View ArticleThe Role and Impact of Women in Lawmaking in Kosovo
The Global Women’s Leadership Initiative’s Women in Public Service Project at the Wilson Center in collaboration with the National Albanian American Councilpresents A Conversation on: The Role and...
View ArticleA Conversation on the Role and Impact of Women in Lawmaking in Kosovo
On June 19, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ Global Women’s Leadership Initiative (GWLI) presented “A Conversation on the Role and Impact of Women in Lawmaking in Kosovo” in...
View ArticleHow Change Happens and Women Leading in Post-Conflict Settings
These two panels are a part of the Bryn Mawr College Women in Public Service Project Institute: Peacebuilding and Development. The Institute is a two-week program for emerging women leaders from...
View ArticleStudents from China Women's University Visit the Wilson Center
Eighteen years ago, in 1995, Beijing hosted the world’s largest women’s conference. Out of that historic summit grew the global commitments known as the Beijing Platform of Action which called for a...
View ArticleConference Report: African Women and Youth as Agents of Change through...
On May 1, 2013, the Africa Program and the Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity (Leadership Project) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Wilson Center) sought to...
View ArticleWomen, Business and the Law 2014: Removing Restrictions to Enhance Gender...
Women, Business and the Law measures how laws, regulations, and institutions differentiate between women and men. It further discusses how the respective laws, regulations, and institutions may affect...
View ArticleA Global Conversation: Why the UN Must Focus on Women’s Leadership
*THIS EVENT WILL BE HELD AT BARNARD COLLEGE*The Women in Public Service is excited to announce a joint event in partnership with Barnard College entitled, “A Global Conversation: Why the UN Must Focus...
View ArticleGWLI Global Advisory Board
The Global Women's Leadership Initiative is proud to announce the members of the GWLI Global Advisory Board. Below you will find profiles of these distinguished women who have blazed the trail for...
View ArticleAddressing Violence Against Women in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Indira Jaising, renowned women’s rights lawyer, a Wilson Center Global Fellow, and the first woman Additional Solicitor General of India, discussed the aftermath of the groundbreaking Nirbhaya gang...
View ArticleWomen Leading Policy Transformation in Agribusiness in Tanzania
Experts from the 50x50 WPSP Leadership Circle and our collaborators at the German Marshall Fund filmed a video for an affiliated program in Tanzania on women in agribusiness. Watch their presentation...
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