International Women's Health + Human Rights
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Featured Guests Include

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Zainab Bangura
Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on Sexual Violence in Conflict
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Akila Radhakrishnan
Senior counsel and legal director at the Global Justice Center (GJC)
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Helen Stacy
Senior Fellow, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University (emeritus)
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Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg
Founder of Akili Dada; Director, African Women in Agricultural Research and Development

Syllabus

Introduction
Welcome to the course
How an online course works
 
Week 1. Human Rights
Women’s rights = Human rights
Son preference and demography
 
Week 2. Education
Education as the 'magic' intervention
Learning vs. schooling

Week 3:  Adolescence & Vulnerability
Female genital cutting/mutilation
Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS

Week 4: Reproductive Health and Rights
Early marriage and early childbirth
Reproductive health, sexuality, maternity, contraception
​Week 5: Violence in the Home and Community
Domestic violence, rape within the family and community, honor killings and dowry death
 
Week 6: Women in War and Refugee Situations
The nature of current wars, forced migration, rape as a weapon of war, natural disasters
 
Week 7: Women's Quest to Escape Poverty
Access to money and work, globalization and its effects on women’s work, sex trafficking and sex work

Week 8: Aging and the End of Life
Aging, demography, social exclusion and loss, women as caregivers

Conclusion
Reflecting back on this experience
Choosing priorities and making a difference

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