Rutgers University Center for Women's Global Leadership

The Center for Women's Global Leadership develops and facilitates women's leadership for women's human rights and social justice worldwide. The Global Center was founded as a project of the Douglass College in 1989 and is a unit of the consortium of six women's programs at Rutgers University created to study and promote how and why women lead, and to develop programs that prepare women of all ages to lead effectively. Since 1990, the Global Center has fostered women's leadership in the area of human rights through women's global leadership institutes, strategic planning activities, international mobilization campaigns, UN monitoring, global education endeavors, etc. The Global Center works from a human rights perspective with an emphasis on violence against women, sexual and reproductive health and socio-economic well-being.