United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon received a standing ovation for his historic speech supporting LGBT human rights on March 7, 2012 at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, but some members walked out of the meeting.

The goal of our work with the WHRD-IC is to enable them to function effectively as a coalition, to help them to heighten the Coalition’s profile on an international stage as an advocacy network, and to support their efforts to increase the number of women human rights defenders able to secure adequate assistance and redress for violations.

Anjie Rosga is the co-author, with Margaret Satterthwaite, of two seminal articles on human rights indicators:
“The Trust in Indicators: Measuring Human Rights” in Berkeley Journal of International Law, Vol. 27.2 (Summer 2009): 253-315.
“Measuring Human Rights: U.N. Indicators …

Training:  Anjie provided focus group training to a graduate student research team along with step-by-step guidance on qualitative research involving sensitive topics in a complex, volatile environment.
Participatory Action/Human Rights-Based Research Design:

She assisted the principal investigator …

UNICEF’s Bangladesh seemingly successful well-water project in Bangladesh led to widespread arsenic poisoning and the ostracizing of families who lived near poisoned wells. Hindsight reveals that much greater community participation in the design and evaluation of the project would have significantly mitigated, if not prevented altogether, these negative consequences.

…the concept of cultural violence can be helpful for thinking about complex violent events like war rape. It allows us to identify how a rapist can in fact experience himself as a victim of violence (of the force that he feels requiring him to carry out the act…), even as he is raping a woman. This concept gives us a way to talk about his victimization by cultural norms of masculinity and soldierhood without equating his experience with the injury of direct violence experienced at his hands by the woman.

Educating peacekeepers about women’s human rights and violence against women

 
an online course in ten lessons

written by AnnJanette Rosga, in association with Megan Bastick and Anja Ebnöther, for the Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of Armed …

“One cannot fail to notice the inconsistency of those rejecting human rights: their rejection takes place in the public square created by human rights. It is difficult to reject human rights without using them.”
— Filip …

Check out Filip Spagnoli’s excellent blog, which is “about human rights, including political and economic human rights such as the right to participate in government (democracy being a subset of human rights), the right not …

New York University Law School, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, New York City, USA
AnnJanette Rosga was on retainer in 2010-2011 as a technical consultant in research design, methods and training 

Providing focus group training and …