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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, Sexuality, Sexual and Reproductive Health 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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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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SOUTH ASIA MOVEMENT BUILDING AND HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTE
The South Asia Movement Building and Human Rights Institute, which began is an annual five-day residential training program designed by CREA for women working in NGOs in South Asia in mid-level leadership positions, to build the conceptual clarity of participants on gender, feminism and movement building and their link to human rights in the South Asian context. Activists and academics from the global South teach the course using classroom instruction, group work, case studies, simulation exercises and films.
OBJECTIVES
Build conceptual understanding of participants on gender, feminism and movement building and their link to human rights. Develop strategic skills by looking at and analyzing some social movements and successful advocacy campaigns in South Asia. Build communication skills that will enable participants to prepare effective written communication material, social messaging in videos and documentaries and use ICTs for human rights work.
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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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For more information including
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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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. Four Institutes have taken place in
New York, USA and Istanbul, Turkey.
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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THE FEMINIST LEADERSHIP AND MOVEMENT BUILDING INSTITUTE (EAST AFRICA)
The Feminist Leadership and Movement Building Institute (East Africa) is a week-long course designed to strengthen feminist leadership, strategies and collective power for social transformation in Africa. Using a movement building lens, the process allows participants to build their knowledge on the theoretical underpinnings of movement building synthesized from analyses of global movements. Additionally, participants identify the different intersections, interactions, common spaces and challenges that social movements encounter when collaborating on issues of women's human rights. Activists and academics from the global South teach the course using classroom instruction, group work, case studies, simulation exercises and films. Two Institutes have taken place in Uganda in September 2008 and April 2010 respectively.
OBJECTIVE
The Institute combine reflection on the current political landscape as well as past organizing strategies for women's rights in Africa by using a trans-movement building approach. Looking at diverse movements in Africa and globally, the Institute enables participants to relate to some of the experiences and lessons from these movements to their own contexts, countries, and regions. The movement building approach challenges groups to critically assess how they have organized themselves to achieve their social justice goals. In particular the Institute enables participants to explore their political agenda, involvement of constituents and strategies for collective action underpinned by reflection.
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THE DISABILITY SEXUALITY AND RIGHTS ONLINE TRAINING
The Disability, Sexuality and Rights Online Training provides a study of theory and practice for people working in fields such as development, health and rights, including disability and sexuality. The aim of the training is to develop awareness of issues of disability and sexuality and a political perspective on disabled people's sexual rights. Participants develop their ability to work in inclusive and holistic ways that further health and rights. This training is organized and taught by an international group of academics and activists in the disability rights field who specialize in sexual and reproductive rights and health from a global South perspective. The course is conducted entirely online in English with presentations, reading, discussion, research, activities and a final project.
The first Disability, Sexuality and Rights Institute was held during February and March 2010 with 33 participants from around the world. The co-organizers and core faculty members for the course included Ekaete Umoh (Nigeria, Family Centered Initiative for Challenged Persons), Janet Price (UK, Liverpool University), and Anita Ghai (India, University of Delhi), all of whom identify as disabled women.
OBJECTIVE
Increase within the women's rights movement the inclusion of disabled women and the recognition of disability as a women's rights issue and related to other women's rights issues. Develop awareness and understanding of the control and denial of disabled women's sexuality and to further knowledge of how to advance disabled women's sexual rights. Build leadership of disabled women in advocacy for their sexual rights.
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NEXT INSTITUTE: OCTOBER 17 TO DECEMBER 17, 2011
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