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Janina Pescinski, a Junior Research Fellow at UNU-GCM in their Female Agency, Mobility and Sociocultural Change programme, has contributed to the UNU Gender Full Spectrum blog series with an article on how female migrants can have a voice in local politics and challenge the divide between formal and informal politics by enacting their universal human rights to assembly, association and expression in the public sphere.

"Achieving the gender SDGs: the OECD Development Centre's work on social norms, gender statistics and transformative policy making" is a lecture given by Keiko Nowacka on Thursday, 9 February at 12:00, in the National Museum’s lecture hall. Keiko is the second lecturer in the UNU-GEST & RIKK 2017 Spring Lecture Series.

"Notes towards a history", an experimental documentary by Francesca Soans, was screened today at the Iceland National Museum's lecture. This was the first event of UNU-GEST and RIKK lecture series for the spring semester of 2017.

The United Nations University Gender Equality Studies and Training Programme (UNU-GEST) Post-Graduate Diploma Programme in International Gender Studies at the University of Iceland is welcoming eighteen fellows, twelve women and six men, during the spring semester of 2017.

On the 25th November, the United Nations’ International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, UNU-GEST in collaboration with UNU-MERIT in the Netherlands, launched a new blog series – Gender Full Spectrum. The series represents journey through various UNU institutes and UN bodies, exploring gender’s multifaceted roles in different research areas and showcasing a wide range of gender-relevant research.

A nordic conference taking place in Helsinki from 30 November to 2 December shifts the focus of gendered violence on perpetrators. Erla Hlín Hjálmarsdóttir, Head of Research at UNU-GEST will give a lecture on Icelandic research on perpetrators and collaboration efforts at the municipal level to counter domestic violence.