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Joseph Kazima, who graduated from the UNU-GEST diploma programme in 2014 and now the head the Gender Mainstreaming Division of the Ministry of Gender in Malawi, was honoured with the He4She campaign badge on 22nd March 2018.

Prof. Cynthia Enloe´s lecture #IcelandToo? How Patriarchy Is Perpetuated, held 28 February at the University of Iceland, in now available online

Maaref Fadel, a UNU-GEST fellow from Lebanon, visited the presidential office in Reykjavík yesterday offering a gift to Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, the President of Iceland. Ms. Fadel was one of three students to deliver a speech for the President and the First Lady about her experience in the UNU-GEST programme in Iceland.

Professor Viviane Namaste from Concordia University, Montréal, is the seventh lecturer in this term‘s UNU-GEST and RIKK lecture series. Her lecture is titled: "Women’s Health Organizing: Lessons from Montréal’s Haitian Community in the 1980s".

Faculty of Media and Communications, Belgrade and UNU-GEST invite masters students from FMK to apply for a joint Erasmus+ and UNU-GEST fellowship to attend the 2019 Post-Graduate Diploma Programme in International Gender Studies at the University of Iceland. The programme will run from the 8th of January until the 24th of May 2019 in Reykjavík, Iceland.

Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (CIS) at the University of Sarajevo and UNU-GEST invite CIS masters students to apply for a joint Erasmus+ and UNU-GEST fellowship to attend the 2019 Post-Graduate Diploma Programme in International Gender Studies at the University of Iceland. The 2019 programme will run from the 8th of January until the 24th of May 2019 in Reykjavík, Iceland.