11 April 2018
Mareef Fadel brings a Lebanese gift to the President of Iceland
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.
6 April 2018
Professor Viviane Namaste is the seventh lecturer in this term‘s lecture series
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".
28 March 2018
The 2018 UNU-LRT fellows have arrived
We have a new group of energetic and enthusiastic fellows at UNU-LRT. They are 17 this year, ten women and seven men. The fellows are all experts in their respective countries working on issues related to land use and land management. They will stay for six months at UNU-LRT to advance their knowledge and skills on halting land degradation, restoring degraded land and sustainable land management.
26 March 2018
Faculty of Media and Communications, Belgrade and UNU-GEST offer joint scholarships
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.
26 March 2018
University of Sarajevo and UNU-GEST offer joint scholarships
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.
26 March 2018
Palestine - 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign
A 16-day campaign to end violence against women was carried out by UNRWA’s Emergency Community Mental Health Project in all 54 Bedouin communities targeted in West Bank, Palestine.