Monitoring Women’s Rights

Monitoring Women’s Rights is a new course by Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) that will start in September 2009. In this ten week learning course a basic introduction will be given to measure and monitor the status of women and gender equality, including basic health and welfare, education, civil rights and freedoms, and special protection measures.

This course will treat the full aspect of monitoring; this includes tool development and methodologies for carrying out monitoring. Besides monitoring, this course will also give an insight how to use monitoring outcomes for the improvement of respect, protection and realisation of women’s human rights.

This course is especially intended for human rights/women’s rights staff of NGO’s, intergovernmental and government agencies, women’s advocated and related professionals. The course instructor is Indai Sajor (Philippines). She is founder and former executive director of Asian Women’s Human Rights Center and has been executive director of the Women’s Caucus for Gender Justice ath the International Criminal Court.

Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) provides distant learning courses. These learning courses are especially designed for human rights and development workers. The courses are web-based, but are also available true email

The course starts on 16 September 2009, and is offered over a 10-week period. The course involves approximately 50 hours of reading, on-line working groups, assignments and interaction among students and the instructor. The maximum number of course participants is 25. The application deadline is 15 June 2009

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