PWESCR - Programme on Women's Economic Social and Cultural Rights

is an international advocacy and educational initiative to promote women’s human rights, especially in the context of economic, social and cultural rights, by bringing a gender framework to policy, law and practice at local, national, regional and international levels, through ever-evolving strategies and activities in both conceptual and practical realms.

	Call for applications for PWESCR's Leadership Institute in Women's Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Phase 1: January 22nd to January 28th 2012 Phase 2: June 25th to June 30th 2012 Application Deadline: September 30th, Friday, 2011 For more information, click here.
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Public Talk: Expanding Human Rights Spaces for Women in Afghanistan
	August 26, 2010 PWESCR, in collaboration with the Development in Communication and Extension (DCE) Department at Lady Irwin College, New Delhi, India, organised an informal discussion held on 26 August 2010, with Ms. Massouda Jalal (Former Women’s Affairs Minister, Afghanistan) and Ms. Maria Virginia Bras Gomes (Member, since 2003, and presently Vice-Chair of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) on ‘Expanding Human Rights Spaces for Women in Afghanistan’. Ms. Massouda Jalal discussed the current challenges and issues faced by Afghan women, and Ms. Maria Virginia Bras Gomes shared her observations on economic, social and cultural rights in the context of the recent country review of Afghanistan by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.