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Live webcast Beijing+15 Forum

The NGO Committee on the Status of Women/New York announced that select events of the Global Forum for Women–Beijing Plus 15 will be webcast live on February 27 and 28 from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm (Eastern Standard Time-US). Read on

European Feminist Forum publishes ‘A Herstory’

Over the past several years, feminist women and men throughout Europe came together to meet as part of the European Feminist Forum. In the European Feminist Forum, they exchanged ideas about issues that face women in Europe today, with the goal of creating a new European feminist agenda ... Read on

Interview with Wendy Harcourt

Wendy Harcourt is Senior Director and Editor of the journal Development at the Society for International Development. She is a member and immediate past Chair of Women in Development Europe ... Read on

Project 'Back in a Bite' wins pitch

On September 8, 2009 Aletta won a DOEN Clinic at Mediamatic with the project 'Back in a Bite', pitched by Evelyn de Roos. Read on

Report Fragen training at Aletta

From the 19th till the 21th November 33 women from 29 countries attended the Fragen training. Tilly Vriend, Project manager of the Fragen project, welcomed the participants at Aletta, Institute for Women’s History. Read on

Human Rights Defenders Tulip for Shadi Sadr

The 9th of November, the Iranian human rights lawyer Shadi Sadr won the 2009 Human Rights Defenders Tulip for her courage in championing the human rights of her fellow citizens. The price was handed over to her by the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Verhagen. Read on

Book review Traveling Heritages

This summer, the magazine Feminist Collections, Quarterly of Women Studies (Women's Studies Librarian, Univeristy of Wisconsin) published a favourable book review of 'Traveling Heritages: New Perspectives on collecting, preserving and sharing women's history'. Read on

WLIC symposium in Istanbul

Tilly Vriend, information specialist and coordinator of databases at Aletta, was keynote speaker at the Women’s Library and Information Center (WLIC) symposium in Istanbul. She quoted Gloria Wekker, professor Gender & Ethnicty at Utrecht University (The Netherlands) and associated with Aletta ... Read on

No EU funding for ATHENA 3

The year of dissemination for ATHENA3, an initiative of the Athena Network, will not receive funding from the EU. However, Athena will be able to continue its work within ATGENDER. Read on

Annual report 2008

Are you interested in the activities of the IIAV in 2008? Read the annual report. Read on

IIAV becomes Aletta

The 11th of August, precisely one day after the 80th anniversary of the death of Aletta Jacobs, the International Information Center and Archives for the Women’s Movement (IIAV) has adopted a new name, ‘Aletta, Institute for Women’s History’. At the same time, Aletta launches her revamped www.aletta ... Read on

Mieke Aerts appointed to the Wilhelmina Drucker Chair

Dr. Mieke Aerts (1952) has been appointed professor of ‘political history of gender in the Netherlands’ in the Faculty of the Humanities at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) ... Read on

International Rosa Manus seminar

The IIAV held the first ever Rosa Manus seminar on October 23 and 24, 2008, honoring the Dutch activist for peace and women's suffrage who died in a Nazi camp during the Second Wold War ... Read on

IIAV acquires the online Gerritsen collection

The Gerritsen collection is the largest source in the world for the study of women’s history. It contains 133 magazines and more than 4,000 books in a variety of languages, dating from the 16th century through 1945 ... Read on

IIAV supports research in Victimology

In February 2008, prof. dr. Renée Römkens became holder of the new chair ‘Violence in interpersonal relationships, in particular domestic violence’ at INTERVICT (International Victimology Institute Tilburg) at the Tilburg University ... Read on

Trafficking and migration

Text: Gé MeulmeesterPhotographs: Karin LakemanThe Japanese Yu Kojima recently wrote her dissertation for the Institute of Social Studies in The Netherlands ... Read on

Saskia Wieringa Inaugurated as Professor

The IIAV is immensely proud that its director Dr. Saskia Wieringa has been appointed to hold the chair ’Gender and Women’s Same-Sex Relations Cross-culturally’ at the University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Social Sciences. Prof. Dr ... Read on