Charlotte Bunch To Deliver Sackler Lecture In Human Rights
STORRS, CT -Charlotte Bunch, founder and executive director of the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University, will deliver the 15th Raymond & Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture in Human Rights at the University of Connecticut on Monday, Oct. 20 at 4 p.m. in Konover Auditorium, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center.
(Media-Newswire.com) - STORRS, CT —Charlotte Bunch, founder and executive director of the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers University, will deliver the 15th Raymond & Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture in Human Rights at the University of Connecticut on Monday, Oct. 20 at 4 p.m. in Konover Auditorium, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center.
Her talk is titled, “Passionate Politics: The Intersection of Gender, Culture, and Human Rights.”
Also a Board of Governor’s Distinguished Service Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers, Bunch previously was a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, a founder of Washington D.C. Women’s Liberation and of Quest: A Feminist Quarterly. She is the author of numerous essays and has edited or co-edited nine anthologies including the Center’s reports on the UN Beijing Plus 5 Review and the World Conference Against Racism. Her books include two classics: Passionate Politics: Feminist Theory in Action and Demanding Accountability: The Global Campaign and Vienna Tribunal for Women’s Human Rights.
Bunch’s contributions to conceptualizing and organizing for women’s human rights have been recognized by many and include: her induction into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in October 1996; President Clinton's selection of Bunch as a recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights in December 1999; her receipt of the “Women Who Make a Difference Award” from the National Council for Research on Women in 2000; and being honored as one of the “21 Leaders for the 21st Century” by Women’s eNews in 2002 and also receiving the “Board of Trustees Awards for Excellence in Research” in 2006 at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.
She has served on the boards of numerous organizations and is a member of the Advisory Committee for the Human Rights Watch Women’s Right Division and on the Boards of the Global Fund for Women and the International Council on Human Rights Policy.
She has been a consultant to many United Nations bodies and recently served on the Advisory Committee for the Secretary General’s 2006 Report to the General Assembly on Violence against Women.
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