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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Basic Training on Gender and Sexuality in Hindi
July 5-9, 2010, New Delhi, India

Last date for submitting completed applications is May 30, 2010
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Alumni Institute: November 16-21, 2009
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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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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 7-16, 2009

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eligibility application form
log on to www.sexualityinstitute.org

For more information on TARSHI
log on to www.tarshi.net

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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Alumni Institute: February: 8-13, 2010

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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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