News

19 March 2018

New Facebook page and Twitter account

UNU-GTP has opened a Facebook page and Twitter account on this year’s 40th anniversary of the Programme.
19 March 2018

Join us today for Prof. Linda Hogan's public lecture on the contested relationship of religion and human rights

Prof. Linda Hogan, Professor of Ecumenics at Trinity College Dublin, is the sixth lecturer in the joint RIKK and UNU-GEST 2018 spring term lecture series. Her lecture is titled „Religion, Gender and the Politics of Human Rights: A Genealogical Perspective“ and will take place today, March 19th from 12.00-13.00 in the Aula of the University of Iceland.
8 March 2018

Prof. Magnús Þorkell Bernharðsson is fifth lecturer in 2018 spring lecture series

Today, Thursday 8 of March, Prof. Magnús Þorkell Bernharðsson from the Williams College, USA, will be giving a lecture titled: "Where is the line? Egyptian Women and the Arab Spring" as the fifth lecturer in the RIKK & UNU-GEST 2018 spring term lecture series.
7 March 2018

UNU-GEST takes part in a side-event at CSW62: The Road to End Child Marriage in Africa

The Governments of Malawi, Zambia and Iceland in collaboration with UN Women and UNU-GEST convene a side event at the sixty-second session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW62) United Nations Headquarters, New York: The Road to Ending Child Marriage in Africa, organized within the framework of the priority theme of the CSW62: Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls.
6 March 2018

Conflict and Hunger

An open seminar will be held at the University of Iceland on March 7 from 12:00 to 13:00, hosted by UNU-GEST, the Institute of International Affairs at the University of Iceland, Höfði Reykjavík Peace Centre and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs
1 March 2018

Prof Cynthia Enloe's lecture at Haskoli Islands

A full Aula at the University of Iceland listened to an encouraging and uplifting lecture of Prof Cynthia Enloe earlier this week, when discussing her latest book “The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy” in context to the #metoo movement in Iceland.