[ycnews] CREA's Sexuality, Gender, and Rights Institute: Exploring Theory and Practice, 21-29 June 2014, Istanbul, Turkey

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*CREA's Sexuality, Gender, and Rights Institute: *

*Exploring Theory and Practice 21 - 29 June, 2014Istanbul, Turkey *

*Applications are due on or before 15 April 2014*. To apply online, click
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and e-mail the completed form to Sushma Luthra at sluthra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or
to CREA at crea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx. Send any queries to Ms Luthra as well.

CREA's Sexuality, Gender, and Rights Institute is an annual residential
course--begun in 2007--which focuses on a conceptual study of sexuality and
its application to program interventions. The Institute examines the links
between sexuality, rights, gender, and health, and their interface with
socio-cultural and legal issues. Participants critically analyse policy,
research, and programme interventions using a rights-based approach.
*Course Content*
Sexuality is a complex field of study, which spans multiple disciplines and
areas of work. Accordingly, the course content of the Sexuality, Gender,
and Rights Institute will focus on a conceptual and theoretical study of
sexuality, drawing from different social science disciplines and the
intersections between them. Activists and academics will teach the course
using classroom instruction, group work, case studies, simulation
exercises, fiction, and films.

- Sexuality theory
- Sexuality and human rights
- Sexuality and gender
- Sexuality and legal systems
- Sexual and reproductive health and rights
- Representation of sexuality
- Sexuality, freedom of expression and censorship
- Sexual diversities and rights
- Sexuality and disability
- Sexual rights advocacy
- Case studies of programme interventions

*Organiser*
CREA is a feminist human rights organisation, based in New Delhi, India. It
is one of the few international women's rights organisations based in the
global South, led by Southern feminists, which works at the grassroots,
national, regional, and international levels. CREA's mission is to build
feminist leadership, advance women's human rights, and expand sexual and
reproductive freedoms.
*Participants*
For the Institute, 25-30 participants will be selected, based on their
application forms and their ability to demonstrate how they would apply the
lessons of the Institute. Individuals working on issues of sexuality, LGBT
rights, sexual rights, HIV/AIDS, violence against women, health, and/or
gender are eligible to apply. Preference will be given to individuals
working in the global South at the national/local level to advance sexual
rights. Participants are required to stay for the duration of the course.
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*Venue and Dates*
The Sexuality, Gender, and Rights Institute will be held in Istanbul,
Turkey, during 21-29 June 2014. (Begins 9 am on 21st; Ends 4 pm on 29th).
*Travel and Visa*
Participants are responsible for incurring their travel costs to and from
the Institute and obtaining their own visa. CREA will assist with the visa
process by providing a letter of invitation and required visa letters.
* Registration Costs*

*Registration and Course fees are due on or before 26 May 2014. *

Registration fee: USD 150. All selected applicants will have to pay this
fee.

Course fee: USD 2800. This covers tuition, resource package, accommodation
on a twin-sharing basis from 20-29 June 2014 (9 nights), and all
breakfasts. Please note that this is a subsidised cost for participation.
The expenses per participant total approximately USD 4500.

Not included in the course fees: Travel costs and lunches/dinners.

*Accommodation*
Accommodation will be on twin-sharing basis. Participants desiring single
rooms will have to pay a supplement of USD 550.
*Scholarships*
A very small number of full and partial scholarships from CREA are
available on a need basis. Please note that the scholarship process is
competitive.
ONLY individuals who meet all the following criteria are eligible to apply
for a scholarship.

- Working for national/local organisation in the global South;
- Working and residing in the global South; and
- Working on sexual rights, LGBT, and sex workers' rights issues directly

NOT ELIGIBLE: Students; individuals not affiliated with organisations; and
individuals working with international organisations.

*Funding Opportunities*
We encourage participants to approach donors to sponsor their
participation. Possible sources for funding include the organisation you
work for; your organisation's donors (some funders will consider travel
grants to current grantees); and the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for
Justice, the African Women's Development Fund (AWDF), the Ford Foundation,
the Global Fund for Women, the International Women's Health Coalition, Mama
Cash, and Open Society Foundations. We suggest that you begin researching
options immediately upon submitting your application to us.
*Participating Faculty*

Alice Miller, JD, is a scholar and advocate on the faculty of Yale
University's School of Public Health and Jackson Institute for Global
Affairs, and a spring Adjunct at Yale Law School. She co-directs the Global
Health Justice Partnership, a joint initiative of the Law and Public Health
Schools. Previously, Miller taught at the UC Berkeley Law School as well as
Columbia University, where she co-directed the Center (now Institute) for
the Study of Human Rights and Master's Program in Human Rights jointly
appointed to the Public Health and International and Public Affairs
Schools. She teaches and writes in the areas of sexuality, rights, law,
gender, health, and humanitarian issues. She combines extensive US and
international advocacy experience with her academic work, specialising in
developing a framework for human rights claims in the context of
contemporary critical understandings of sexuality, law, and globalised
advocacy networks.

Carole S Vance, PhD, MPH, teaches anthropology, public health and sexuality
at the Mailman School of Public Health, and for 10 years, has directed the
Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Human Rights at the
Columbia University. She has extensively written about sexual theory;
science, sexuality, gender, and health; and policy controversies about
sexual expression and imagery. She is the editor of *Pleasure and Danger:
Exploring Female Sexuality (1982, 1993)*. In 2005, she received the David R
Kessler Award for lifetime contribution to the study of sexuality.

Geetanjali Misra is co-founder and Executive Director of CREA. She has
worked at the activist, grant making and policy levels on issues of
sexuality, reproductive health, gender, human rights and violence against
women. She writes on issues of sexuality, gender and rights and
co-edited *Sexuality,
Gender and Rights: Exploring Theory and Practice in South and Southeast
Asia (2005)*. Before joining CREA, she was the Sexuality and Reproductive
Health Program Officer at the Ford Foundation. In 1989, she co-founded
SAKHI for South Asian Women, a non-profit organisation based in New York,
committed to ending violence against women of South Asian origin.

Huang Yingying is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, and Deputy
Director, Institute of Sexuality and Gender, at Renmin University in China.
She bases her research in China and focuses on female sex workers, male
clients, women's body and sexuality, social aspects of HIV/AIDS, and
research methodology on sexuality. She is the author of the book *Body,
Sexuality and Xinggan (sexiness): Study on Chinese Women's Daily
Lives (2008)* and several publications on female sex workers and male
clients in China since 1999. Dr Huang has also worked as gender consultant
for several international HIV/AIDS projects since 2003, and is one of the
key sponsors of the biannual international conference on Sexualities in
China, which started in 2007.

Janet Price is an activist and academic, who works at the intersection of
disability, sexuality, and gender. Based in Liverpool, UK, she has been
involved with CREA for over a decade, raising the profile of sexuality
issues for disabled people. In partnership with disabled and non-disabled
colleagues from Nigeria, India, Kenya, and Australia, amongst others, she
co-convenes the Disability, Sexuality, and Rights Online Institute, the 3rd
of which ran in late 2013. She maintains her academic links through her
involvement with the Gender and Health Group at Liverpool School of
Tropical Medicine. She is also on the Board of Disability and Deaf Arts
(DaDa), Liverpool, which holds a biennial International Festival, DaDaFest.
The next DaDaFest will be in late 2014-15, with parallel festivals in
Malawi, India and DR Congo, amongst others. The focus will be on the Right
to Culture for disabled and deaf people.

Hossam Bahgat is a journalist and human rights defender based in Cairo.
He is the founder and, for eleven years was the executive director, of the
Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), a Cairo-based independent
organisation defending human rights in Egypt. Since 2002, the EIPR has used
research, advocacy and litigation to defend civil liberties and political
rights and promote economic and social justice and reform of the criminal
justice system. With training in political science and international human
rights law, Bahgat is also Board Chair of the International Network for
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net), and a member of the Board
of Directors of the Fund for Global Human Rights. In 2010, Bahgat received
Human Rights Watch's Allison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism.

Meena Saraswathi Seshu is the General Secretary of SANGRAM, an organisation
that works on the rights of sex workers and people living with HIV/AIDS.
SANGRAM's Centre for Advocacy on Stigma and Marginalisation (CASAM)
advocates for the reduction of stigma, violence, and harassment of
marginalised communities, especially those who have challenged dominant
norms. Seshu is part of the UNAIDS Reference Group on Human Rights and HIV.
In 2002, she was awarded the Human Rights Defender Award by the Human
Rights Watch. Seshu was a speaker at the 2010 International AIDS Conference
in Vienna, Austria, and at the 2012 Sex Worker Freedom Festival in Kolkata,
India.

Oliver Phillips is currently a Reader in Law at the University of
Westminster in London, England, as well as a Visiting Professor at the
Southern and Eastern African Regional Centre for Women's Law (SEARCWL) at
the University of Zimbabwe. He has a Ph.D. in Criminology from the
University of Cambridge, and has written extensively on sexuality, human
rights and the law in Zimbabwe and South Africa. Oliver was one of the
founders of GALZ (Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe) and of the UK charity
FOTAC (Friends of the Treatment Action Campaign); from 2002-2009 he was
Deputy Chair of the Britain-Zimbabwe Society (BZS). At present, he serves
as an expert witness in relation to applications for asylum made by
Zimbabweans in the UK; he is also on the board of the International Gay and
Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), and the advisory board of the
International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO).

Sealing Cheng, DPhil, is Associate Professor in Anthropology at the Chinese
University of Hong Kong. She received her doctorate from the Institute of
Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University. She was then a
Rockefeller postdoctoral fellow in Gender, Sexuality, Health, and Human
Rights at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. Between
2005 and 2012, she taught in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies,
Wellesley College. Her research is focused on sexuality with reference to
sex work, human trafficking, women's activism, and policy-making. Her book, *On
the Move for Love: Migrant Entertainers and the U.S. Military in South
Korea **(University of Pennsylvania Press 2010)* received the Distinguished
Book Award of the Sexualities Section of the American Sociological
Association in 2012.

Svati P Shah, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and
Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Shah's
work has been published in a range of scholarly and progressive journals,
including Gender and History, Cultural Dynamics, Rethinking
Marxism, and SAMAR: South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection. Her
book, *Seeing Sexual Commerce: Sex, Work, and Migration in the City of
Mumbai,* on sex work and migration in Mumbai's informal sector, is due to
be released in 2014 by Duke University Press. She is currently working on
the politics of LGBTQ movements and economic class in India.

Special Lecture
Shohini Ghosh is Professor at the AJK Mass Communication Centre, Jamia
Millia Islamia, (Central University) New Delhi, India. She is the director
of *Tales of the Nightfairies*(2002) a film about the Sex Workers Rights
Movement in Calcutta and the author *Fire: A Queer Classic *(2010)
published by Arsenal Pulp Press, Canada and Orient Publishing in India. She
is co-founder member of *Mediastorm Collective*, India's first all women
documentary production collective which received *The Chameli Devi Jain
Award* for Outstanding Work among Women Media Professionals in 1992. Ghosh
has been Visiting Professor in a number of universities within and outside
India and has had a long association with the Sexuality, Gender, and Rights
Institute. Ghosh writes on contemporary media, speech and censorship,
popular cinema, documentary and issues of gender and sexuality. Her current
work is titled *Violence and the Spectral Muslim: Action, Affect and Bombay
Cinema at the Turn of the 20th Century.*
*Applications are due on or before 15 April 2014*. Applications received
after this date will not be considered. Applicants will be informed about
the selection decisions by 30 April 2014.
Contact Person: Sushma Luthra; Email: sluthra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or
crea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

*Quick Links*

- *Online Application Form

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