Women's Human Rights

A Course on Women Shaping Society
Designing a New Gender Studies Course

international work   This collaboration between the Asian University for Women (AUW) and the Wellesley Centers for Women resulted in the design of a year-long gender studies course, Women Shaping Society.


Accessing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to Empower Women ...
Uniting Women's Rights and Disability Rights

international work  The overarching goal of this project is to facilitate full citizenship rights for women and children with disabilities in Bangladesh and Nepal.


Advancing the Intersections of Women’s, Children’s, and Disability Rights
In Bangladesh, Nepal, Cambodia, and India

international work  This project is based on the model of past work dealing with the intersections of women's, and children's, and disability rights in Bangladesh and Nepal. It is a multiphased project to be actualized in Bangladesh (January 2009), Nepal (January 2009), Cambodia (May 2009), and India (May 2009).


Battered Mothers' Testimony Project
Gender and Justice

This statewide project combines human rights fact-finding, qualitative research, advocacy, and community organizing to document and address the injustices inflicted on battered mothers and their children during family court child custody and visitation litigation.


Convene Asia Regional Law Reform Working Group and Train the Trainer Seminar
Asia Lawyers without Borders
international work

  This program brings together a working group of lawyers and jurists from Asia to focus on law reform in the region. The working group will examine the role that gender-based strategic litigation can play in advancing equality, non-discrimination, and human rights.


Creating a Family Court Advocacy Training Curriculum for Battered Minority and Immigrant Women
Empowering Battered Immigrant Women

Through this project we will develop and pilot-test a new family court advocacy training curriculum for service providers who work with battered immigrant and minority women.  This project is intended to directly affect the lives of battered immigrant women by empowering them with substantive, strategic knowledge.


Decriminalizing Consensual Teen Sex
Law and Consensual Teen Sex

This project explored the ways in which states attempt to regulate consensual adolescent sexual behavior through criminal law.


Effects of Postsecondary Education on Low-income Women
Education-Income Effects

A project to track economic effects of education.


Experiencing Globalization: The Construction of Gender and Ethnicity in the TNC Workplace
Gender and Ethnicity in the Transnational Corporate Workplace
international work

  This project examined the gendered nature of Korean transnational corporations, highlighting the ways in which features of the workplace shape individual and communal identity.


Gender & the Law in China Expert Group Consultation
Chinese Expert Group on Gender & Law

international work  The project brings together China’s leading scholars on gender and the law to build common cause on women’s rights in China.


Gender and Transnational Corporations (TNCs)
Gender Roles and Risks in Global Corporations
international work

  Firms across the globe that engage in international production and manufacturing employ many women. This research outlined various risks and perceived benefits associated for female employees.


Higher Education for Low-Income Women: Advocacy at State and National Levels
Higher ed and women's economic status

This action project involves mobilization of scholars and policymakers to address economic status and women's educational and professional development.


Improving the Court Approach to Domestic Violence Cases in the Massachusetts Family Courts
Massachusetts Domestic Violence Data Collection

This project will provide systematic data on court cases involving domestic violence in Massachusetts.


Promotion of Convention of the Rights of the Child/CEDAW as Complementary Frameworks
Women and Children: The Human Rights Relationship

tinyglobe This project in collaboration with UNICEF addresses, through research and analysis, the way in which women's and children's rights intersect with legislative reform.


Strengthening Gender Equality and Anti-Discrimination in China
Providing Support to Ford Foundation's Grantees Working on Women's Rights and Anti-Discrimination

international work   This project seeks to build on our work with partners in China and embark on a series of programs aimed at strengthening equality and non-discrimination in the areas of sex, residency and disability.


Technical Support to Ford Foundation Grantees Working on Women's Rights Issues in China
Women's Rights in Asia

international work  This grant allows for ongoing technical assistance to Ford Foundation grantees working on the advancement of a women’s rights agenda in China.


Tracking Economic Inequities among Women
Massachusetts women's economic status

This project tracks data and policies affecting women's economic status in Massachusetts.


U.S.-Saudi Women’s Forum on Social Entrepreneurship
Promoting Social Entrepreneurship for Saudi Women

tinyglobe This collaborative project involves sharing best practices and training to promote social entrepreurship by women in Saudi Arabia.


What Do Abused Women of Color and Immigrant Women Experience during Family Court Proceedings?
Interviewing Battered Women of Color

Battered women of color often report that they do not receive fair treatment in family courts and that the courts’ insufficiencies can lead to devastating consequences for them and for their children.


Women in Development IQC: Gender Matters
School-related Gender Violence in Developing Countries
international work

  Through this project, a review was developed to identify, annotate, and synthesize research studies and projects/interventions addressing primary and secondary school-related gender-based violence in developing countries. The review was conducted in 2003 and again in 2005/2006.


Women in Prison and Family Connection
Incarcerated Women and Their Families

This project involves coordinating a coalition to identify best practices for serving women in Massachusetts' prisons.


Women's Rights Network
Gender and Justice

This inactive project examined women's rights and continued indirectly through the Gender and Justice Project and the Battered Mother's Testimony Project.


Women’s Leadership Network: Women’s Political, Public, & Economic Participation in the Muslim World
Muslim Women Leaders Network

tinyglobe Through this project, a network of women leaders in countries where either Islam is a state religion, or has a large community that is governed by religious laws including Islamic laws, has been convened to build a body of scholarship that can be a platform for advocacy and sharing of strategies on emerging issues that bolster women's political, public and business participation.