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social change, and enhance your skills as a women’s human rights defender? Join us in Oxford, UK, in June 2020!</span></b></div>
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<p style="margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#073763">We are now accepting applications for the CEDAW for Change Institute in Oxford, UK. The program will run from June 1st to June 6th,
2020, with an additional online learning component.</span></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">This intensive capacity-building institute focusses on feminist activist approaches to CEDAW, the UN Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination Against Women, alongside complementary international and regional human rights frameworks and mechanisms to support strategic advocacy and leadership capacities amongst women’s human rights defenders. Innovative approaches to combatting
intersectional discrimination against women in a context of backlash and processes to support cross-movement and cross-regional alliances will be explored with international women’s human rights defenders and leaders.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">The CEDAW for Change Institute is facilitated by a team of international women’s human rights experts:</span></h4>
<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:13.0pt; margin-left:0in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Alda Facio,
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">WHRI Co-founder, Costa Rican feminist jurist and activist, Special Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on discrimination against women and girls (UN WGDAW)</span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:13.0pt; margin-left:0in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Angela Lytle</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">, WHRI Executive
Director</span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:13.0pt; margin-left:0in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Anna Arutshyan</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">, WSF Co-founder</span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:13.0pt; margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Special Guest:</span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:13.0pt; margin-left:0in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Meskerem Geset Techane</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">,
Chair, UN Working Group on discrimination against women and girls</span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:13.0pt; margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Additional speakers to be announced!</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#20124D">EURASIAN FELLOWSHIPS</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#20124D">:</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">
The Oxford program is offered in partnership with the </span><a href="https://womenssolidarityfund.org/" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Women’s Solidarity Fund</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">.
We are pleased to announce that WSF, with support from </span><a href="https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Open Society Foundations</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">,
has a limited number of full fellowships for WHR defenders from the Eurasian region (tuition, travel, accommodations) available for this program. The application period for fellowships will be open from December 1st - January 10, 2020. See the website for
details and parameters at the link below.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:13.0pt; margin-left:0in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#20124D">TUITION DISCOUNTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#20124D">:</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">
As usual, we also have a limited number of tuition discounts and scholarships (not covering any travel or accommodation costs) that are earmarked for under-represented groups of women to help increase program accessibility. Scholarships to attend WHRI programs
have long been supported by the </span><a href="https://www.channelfoundation.org/" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Channel Foundation</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">
and </span><a href="https://cupe.ca/" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">CUPE</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">.
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The application period for partial and full tuition scholarships will be open from December 1st - January 10, 2020. See the website for details and parameters at the link below. </span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:13.0pt; margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Please visit our website for more information or to apply: :</span><a href="http://learnwhr.org/oxford2020/" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">http://learnwhr.org/oxford2020/</span></a></p>
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