Rangita de Silva de Alwis Projects

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  Women’s Leadership Network: Women’s Political, Public, & Economic Participation in the Muslim World
  
  

  2011 - 2012

  Through this project, a network of women leaders in countries where either Islam is a state religion, or has a large community that is governed by religious laws including Islamic laws, has been convened to build a body of scholarship that can be a platform for advocacy and sharing of strategies on emerging issues that bolster women's political, public and business participation.

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  Rabat Roundtable: Women Leading Change in the Arab and Muslim Communities
  
  

  2011 - 2011

  This roundtable held in Rabat, Morocco in spring 2011 brought together women advocates and law and policy makers who were working to advance the rights and status of women in the Muslim community.

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  Advancing the Intersections of Women’s, Children’s, and Disability Rights in the Domestic, Regional, and International Arenas
  
  

  2009 - 2012

  This project was based on the model of past work dealing with the intersections of women's and children's, and disability rights in Bangladesh and Nepal. It was a multiphased project actualized in Bangladesh (January 2009), Nepal (January 2009), Cambodia (May 2009), and India (May 2009).

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  Strengthening Gender Equality and Anti-Discrimination in China
  
  

  2009 - 2012

  This project sought to build on our work with partners in China and embark on a series of programs aimed at strengthening equality and non-discrimination in the areas of sex, residency and disability.

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  Accessing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to Empower Women and Children with Disabilities in Bangladesh and Nepal
  
  

  2009 - 2012

  The overarching goal of this project was to facilitate full citizenship rights for women and children with disabilities in Bangladesh and Nepal

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  Gender & the Law in China Expert Group Consultation
  
  

  2009 - 2012

  The project brings together China’s leading scholars on gender and the law to build common cause on women’s rights in China.

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  Promotion of Convention of the Rights of the Child/CEDAW as Complementary Frameworks
  
  

  2012 - 2012

  This project in collaboration with UNICEF addresses, through research and analysis, the way in which women's and children's rights intersect with legislative reform.

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  Convene Asia Regional Law Reform Working Group and Train the Trainer Seminar
  
  

  2012 - 2012

  This program brings together a working group of lawyers and jurists from Asia to focus on law reform in the region.

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  Technical Support to Ford Foundation Grantees Working on Women's Rights Issues in China
  
  

  2006 - 2007

  This grant allows for ongoing technical assistance to Ford Foundation grantees working on the advancement of a women’s rights agenda in China.

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  A Course on Women Shaping Society
  
  

  2009 - 2009

  This collaboration between the Asian University for Women (AUW) and the Wellesley Centers for Women resulted in the design of a year-long gender studies course, Women Shaping Society.