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Harriet Adong graduated from the UNU-GEST diploma programme in 2017 and is currently working as the Executive Director of the Foundation for Integrated Rural Development in Uganda (FIRD), a community based organization established in 2005 to support survivors of conflict related sexual and gender based violence.

One of the core strategies of UNU-GEST is the multidisciplinary approach adopted to promote gender equality and social well-being through high-quality, collaborative and policy-relevant research. To this end, the UNU-GEST programme is happy to welcome Dr. Jón Ingvar Kjaran and Dr. Thomas Brorsen Smidt to the research team.

UNU-GEST alumni Masha Durkalić is co-authoring the book #ŽeneBiH, which is an artistic, activist and research initiative comprising the biographies of over 50 women from Bosnia Herzegovina who have broken stereotypes and advocated women’s rights and emancipation.

On Thursday, 06th of September, Dr. Giti Chandra opened this terms lecture series organized by RIKK – Institute for Gender, Equality and Difference with her lecture “The Anonymous Feminist: Agency, Trauma, and Personhood in the #MeToo Movement.

The report offers a thorough overview of UNU-GEST operations in the year 2017. The report is divided into four strategic themes; post-graduate education and capacity development; knowledge transmission and transational dialouge; research activities; and management. Read about our contributions to promote gender equality and social justice in developing, conflict and post-conflict countries through a multidisciplinary approach in the year 2017.

Tereza Vujošević who graduated from the UNU-GEST diploma programme in International Gender Equality Studies in May 2018, was invited to talk about her experiences in Iceland and issues regarding gender equality in her home country Montenegro on the leading TV programme “Journal at 19” on August 8th.