17 April 2018
Icelandic youth learns about gender inequality from UNU-GEST fellows
UNU-GEST fellows from Montenegro, Palestine and Malawi gave presentations about gender inequality in their home countries in Flensborg Upper Secondary School in Hafnarfjörður
16 April 2018
UNU-GEST Alumni Joseph Kazima honoured as He4She campaign champion
Joseph Kazima, who graduated from the UNU-GEST diploma programme in 2014 and now the head the Gender Mainstreaming Division of the Ministry of Gender in Malawi, was honoured with the He4She campaign badge on 22nd March 2018.
14 April 2018
Cynthia Enloe's lecture now available online
Prof. Cynthia Enloe´s lecture #IcelandToo? How Patriarchy Is Perpetuated, held 28 February at the University of Iceland, in now available online
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.