Enhancing women’s rights and women’s agency in times of global crises

With over 20 years of experience, the WHRTI is a unique educational and training programme founded in 2004 aimed at building and developing the capacity of young lawyers from Europe, with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States (CEE/NIS), for litigation on women’s rights and for campaigning for women’s empowerment on themes encompassing:

▪gender-based violence against women

▪technology-facilitated GBV

▪sexual and reproductive health and rights

▪social and economic rights and employment discrimination

▪women’s participation in decision-making and politics and violence against them

▪gender stereotyping

▪multiple/intersectional discrimination

▪countering backlash against women’s rights

▪understanding and navigating dis/mis-information.

Societal inequality generally, the legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic, the anti-gender backlash, wars and conflicts, and multiple other crises have all impacted women in a disproportionate and more severe manner. Women experience multiple and compounded forms of discrimination as they constitute the greater part of vulnerable groups, including elderly women, women living in rural areas, women with disabilities, women from ethnic or racial minorities, migrant and refugee women, sole parents and heads of households, and women living with other vulnerabilities including poverty. The Women’s Human Rights Training Institute will also consider the issues related to the impact of these crises on women’s rights.