22 April 2017
Bringing Gender to the Environmental Table: UNEP’s Global Gender Assessment
A symposium on UNEP’s Global Gender Assessment will be held on 24 April, in cooperation of UNU-GEST, RIKK – Institute for Gender, Equality and Difference, and the interdisciplinary Environment and Natural Resources programme, at the University of Iceland.
19 April 2017
UNU-GEST fellow Bisharo Ali, from Somalia, featured in the Icelandic National TV for her efforts towards alleviating Somali humanitarian crisis.
Bisharo Ali is leading a series of fundraising activities to alleviate the humanitarian crisis currently happening in Somalia in collaboration with Icelandic Red Cross.
19 April 2017
Lecture on the Rise of the Black Lives Matter Movement
Lecture series event "The Rise of the Black Lives Matter Movement: Race and Policing in the United States" by Dr. Rashawn Ray, University of Maryland, U.S. The secture will take place on 21 April from 12-13h at the National Museum of Iceland lecture hall.
15 April 2017
UNU-GEST Professor TJ Boisseau on the Icelandic National Radio station on contemporary gender and race politics in the U.S.
TJ Boisseau, U.S. Fulbright Scholar to the University of Iceland and UNU-GEST Professor featured in the Icelandic National Broadcast in series of programmes on US politics.
12 April 2017
First UNU-GEST collaboration with Our World web Magazine by United Nations University
Pétur Waldoff's article on his research on Gendered Value Chain Analysis in Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania has been featured in Our World Magazine.
11 April 2017
UNU-GEST and Makerere University offer scholarships for spring term 2019
UNU-GEST collaboration with Makerere University in Uganda continues. The partners are pleased to offer full scholarships to two master´s students of Makerere University to attend the UNU-GEST diploma programme 2018 in international gender studies. The scholarships are partially funded by the Erasmus + grant scheme.