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This spring the United Nations University Gender Equality Studies and Training Programme (UNU-GEST), in collaboration with the Icelandic Embassy in Malawi, organized a short course on Teaching Gender to Youth in Mangochi, Malawi.

Dr. Irma Erlingsdóttir, the Director of the UNU-GEST Programme and the RIKK – Institute for Gender, Equality and Difference, is among the world's 100 most influential people in gender policy 2019, according to a new list from Apolitical, a peer-to-peer learning and policy platform for governments and other public bodies.

Today, the United Nations University Gender Equality Studies and Training Programme (UNU-GEST) celebrated the graduation of 23 fellows who were awarded a post-graduate diploma in international gender studies from the University of Iceland. This year, the fellows come from 13 countries; from Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Palestine, Serbia, Uganda and for the first time Kosovo and India.

23 fellows are graduating from the UNU-GEST programme in spring semester 2019 with a post-graduate diploma degree in international gender studies. The graduates will present their final assignments at open seminars at the University of Iceland.

During the first week of May, as a part of the module Gender, Environment, and Climate Change, the UNU-GEST fellows participated in the annual field visit to the southeast of Iceland.

On 9-10 May 2019 more than 50 members of the Nordic Women Mediators (NWM) network convened in Oslo for a two-day annual meeting. In addition to the NWM members, seven prominent women from Afghanistan, Libya and Yemen were invited to provide insights into the status of women’s engagement and influence in the peace processes in their respective countries.