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Mission Statement

The Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) was founded at Rutgers University in 1989 with the mission "to develop and facilitate women's leadership for women's human rights and social justice worldwide."  For almost two decades, the Center has played a key role in developing a core of women leaders from around the world who have advanced an understanding of women's rights as human rights and helped to shape a women's human rights paradigm and movement that has transformed both human rights and the ways that women's issues are understood. While the Center's commitment to this mission remains firm, it is in the midst of a major leadership transition and organizational capacity building process aimed at strengthening its ability to continue fulfilling its goals in the future. 

Over the past 20 years CWGL has worked on a range of issues from violence against women to social justice always using a human rights framework.  CWGL has used the intersection of race, class, and gender to examine the connections and complexities amongst the oppressions that women face in their daily lives.  Partnering with a number of organizations working on economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR), such as the Women's International Coalition for Economic Justice (WICEJ), CWGL has developed practical strategies for expanding and realizing the fullest range of women's rights globally.  From advocacy at the Association for Women's Rights in Development triennial forums to United Nations conferences and meetings to the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign themes, sponsored by the Center, CWGL has integrated the ESCR framework to empower and educate activists working for gender equality and the advancement of women worldwide.  Since September the Center has started working on human rights and macro economic policy.  The work has consisted of organizing a meeting to look at popular education material on macro policy as well as how to influence the academy and the UN system on the relationship between human rights and macro economic policy.

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