Shazia Rafi introduces Janice Brodman, Director of the Center for Innovative Technologies Education Development Center, who gives a talk on the opportunities that information and communications technologies (ICTs) provide to the global women's movement, and outlines some strategies and emerging best practices for their use.
A Q&A session between panelists and the audience. Topics covered include cultural sensitivity and effective strategies for changing a society's "informal rules" in addition to the formal ones.
Q&A session for the third and final panel of the symposium. Topics include reaching out to men in the struggle for women's rights, differing views on Islam and feminism, and the need for more education in gender studies in many parts of the Global South.
This lecture, co-sponsored by Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) and Women's Learning Partnership (WLP) in partnership with several other feminist organizations, and co-hosted by McGill University’s Center for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, is a conversation with renowned feminist Charlotte Bunch on navigating the current era of global backlash against women's rights.
