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OBJECTIVE
To build the leadership capacities of women to add their voices to processes of social change.
HOW DO WE GET THERE?
CREA enables people, especially women, to become informed leaders through conducting institutes and training programs that promote a solid base of conceptual, theoretical and practical skills for participants. These programs focus on women’s human rights, sexuality, gender and violence against women.
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IBTIDA: THE COMMUNITY BASED LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
Ibtida, Urdu for ‘beginning’, is a group of community-based organizations, from the states of Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Delhi, Bihar and Assam in India, partnering CREA in the Community Based Leadership Program.
OBJECTIVE
The long-term goal of this program is to enhance the use of formal and informal human rights mechanisms by organizations working at the local level.
HOW DO WE GET THERE?
CREA organizes trainings and workshops that provide issue-based explorations on sexuality, gender, violence against women and human rights as well as opportunities for the sharing of challenges and achievements. Recognizing the scarcity of Hindi-language resources on sexuality, gender, violence against women, and women’s rights, CREA publishes reports and manuals in Hindi for trainers and organizations. CREA facilitates access for partner organizations to national and international forums such as the World Social Forum (WSF) and the International Women’s Health Meeting (IWHM).
IBTIDA PARTNERS
• Mahila Bal Jyoti Kendra Bihata, Bihar
• Mahila Jagran Kendra Patna, Bihar
• Mahila Mandal Hazaribagh, Jharkhand
• Prerana Bharti Madhupur, Jharkhand
• Action India New Delhi
• Association for Advocacy and Legal Initiatives Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
• Gramonnati Sansthan Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh
• Tehreek Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
• Sangatin Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh
• Sahjani Shiksha Kendra Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh
• Vanangana Karvi, Uttar Pradesh
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Basic Training on Gender and Sexuality in Hindi
The Basic Training on Gender and Sexuality in Hindi is a five-day training program with the objective of creating opportunities for women to build preliminary understanding around sexuality and sexual rights.
OBJECTIVES
Develop a basic understanding on sexuality and its connections with gender and human rights. Create a space for women activists, students, development workers and researchers to challenge their notions on sexuality and analyze concepts related to sexuality that inform their work.
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Next Training: July 7 to 11, 2008
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ADHIKAR, VIKAS AUR SANGHARSH - EK ADHYAYAN
(Rights, Development and Struggle: A Human Rights Institute in Hindi)
Adhikar, Vikas aur Sangharsh - Ek Adhyayan is a week-long institute that attempts to address the paucity of resources, debates and scholarship on rights and development in the Hindi language. Faculty and resources persons conduct sessions using a variety of teaching methods including lectures, discussions, readings, case studies, films, and group exercises. The medium of instruction and discussion is Hindi. The institute will also make available resource materials in Hindi on human rights for its participants.
OBJECTIVES
Create opportunities for women working in development to engage with the rights based approach. Enable women working in community-based organizations to critically analyze various themes within development from a rights perspective and to question the relevance of using a human rights framework when engaging with these issues. Build a deeper understanding on international human rights treaties, analyze local movements and contexts and, at each step, question what this approach would mean for the environments in which they work.
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Next Institute: November 2008
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THE INSTITUTE FOR RIGHTS, ACTIVISM AND DEVELOPMENT
The Institute for Rights, Activism and Development (IRAD), which began in 2004, is an annual week-long residential training program designed by CREA for women in development in South Asia to examine concepts of human rights and learn about different approaches. National and international resources persons conduct sessions using a variety of teaching methods including lectures, discussions, readings, case studies, films, and group exercises. The medium of instruction and discussion is English.
OBJECTIVES
Advance an affirmative notion of human rights work that encompasses the complete range of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. Explore the central role of human rights in social movements - how have various social movements in South Asia used rights based approaches? Develop an understanding of the concrete implications of human rights theory for development activists and practitioners. Create a new generation of practitioners who will integrate rights into their programs.
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Next Institute: March 2009
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THE SEXUALITY AND RIGHTS INSTITUTE: EXPLORING THEORY AND PRACTICE
The Sexuality and Rights Institute, in collaboration with TARSHI (Talking About Reproductive and Sexual Health Issues), is an annual two-week-long residential course, begun in the year 2000, that focuses on a conceptual study of sexuality. National and international faculty members teach the course. They employ different pedagogical methods including reading assignments, classroom instruction, group work, case studies, simulation exercises, fictional reading and films. The medium of instruction is English.
OBJECTIVES
Develop a conceptual understanding of the fields of sexuality and human rights,
and their connections with issues of gender and health. Build analytical skills to critically examine how programs, strategies and practices affirm or violate the rights of individuals. Create a new generation of leaders who will integrate work on sexuality and rights into their programs.
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Alumni Institute: January 25-31, 2008
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eligibility application form
log on to www.sexualityinstitute.org
For more information on TARSHI
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Yaunikta, Gender aur Adhikar – Ek Adhyayan
(Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute in Hindi)
Yaunikta, Gender aur Adhikar - Ek Adhyayan is an annual week-long Institute in Hindi on sexuality, gender and rights. This Institute aims to enable women development workers from community based organizations to engage with a conceptual study of sexuality and its intersections with gender, health and human rights. The Institute will make available resource materials in Hindi on Sexuality, Gender and Rights.
OBJECTIVES
Create opportunites for women working in community based groups to engage with a conceptual study of sexuality. Enhance participants' understanding of concepts related to sexuality. Analyze the intersections of sexuality, gender and rights, and look at ways in which this understanding can be incorporated in participants' area of work.
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Next Institute: February 2009
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THE SEXUALITY, GENDER AND RIGHTS INSTITUTE
The Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute is a week long residential course based on the Sexuality and Rights Institute, offering a conceptual study of sexuality to participants from around the world. It examines the links between sexuality, rights, gender, and health and their interface with socio-cultural and legal issues. Participants critically analyze policy, research and program interventions using a rights-based approach. The international faculty draws from different social science disciplines, reflects on theory and practice, and uses a variety of pedagogical methods. The first Institute took place in 2007 in New Paltz, New York, USA at the Mohonk Mountain House.
OBJECTIVES
Further participants’ conceptual understanding of the fields of sexuality, gender, health and human rights and enable them to better implement programs, advocacy initiatives and actions that affirm the sexual rights and reproductive rights of individuals and communities.
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Next Institute: April 2009
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YOUNG WOMEN’S FEMINIST LEADERSHIP AND POLICY ADVOCACY INSTITUTE
In 2007 CREA initiated work on an annual global institute for young women that will focus on social movements, gender and human rights. This global institute will be organized in different regions in the world thereby allowing a larger cross section of young women to participate. In each of the regions CREA will partner with a local organization working with young women and on issues of women’s human rights. The unique feature of this Institute will be to bring the perspective of feminist advocacy by using case studies of diverse social movements such as women’s, labor, indigenous people’s, LGBTQI, and peace from the global south. Participants will be trained to interrogate the human rights system and its approaches and examine how diverse social movements have used human rights principles to further their goals.
OBJECTIVE
Build young women's capacity to strategically work towards women's rights.
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