447 search results for “women s rights” in the Staff website
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professors, students and alumni played a crucial role in Leiden’s women’s rights movement
PhD candidate Agnes van Steen researched the history of the Leiden women’s rights movement (1860-1990) and found that the university produced many feminists.
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S. HoutermanScience
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Lies PunselieFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Afrooz Kaviani JohnsonFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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S. ValdezFaculty of Humanities
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Keyring in your hand when walking down the street alone? 'Many women are always on guard'
A cover over your drink in the pub, deodorant as pepper spray or headphones to avoid hearing catcalling: many women use everyday objects to feel safer in public spaces. Student Anne van der Linden made an online exhibition about this.
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Apollonia BolscherFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jill SteinFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Andrew GawthorpeFaculty of Humanities
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Suzy DuivenvoordeFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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The UN Commission on the Status of Women CSW: Over 75 years of making women’s rights human rights
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
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Children’s Rights Scholarship 2
Master
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Nina van CapelleveenFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Rehana DoleFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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The right diagnosis and faster for women with heart problems
It often takes longer for women with heart problems to get the right diagnosis. In her Annie Romein-Verschoor Lecture, Professor Hester den Ruijter will talk about how hormones influence the heart and the importance of medical research that focuses specifically on women.
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Sabine WittingFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Denise VerkroostFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Rick LawsonFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Ann SkeltonFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Mariëlle BruningFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Ursula KilkellyFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Sophy BairdFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Lucy OpokaFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Katrien KlepFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Ton LiefaardFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Luisa -Pinto E NettoFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Mirjam Sombroek-van DoormFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Leiden Classics: Leiden University’s first women students
It was not until 1878 that the first female students enrolled at Leiden University, but the discussion on whether women were suited to study was by no means over. 8 March is International Women's Day. BBC correspondente Kim Ghattas will deliver a lecture on 6 March on the struggle by Arabic women for…
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Caroline ArchambaultFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Narin IdrizFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Vasiliki KostaFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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While the men are away, the Scheveningen women do it their way
Women confined to the kitchen? Not in Scheveningen around 1900. There, some women ran entire shipping companies. This is according to new research by history student Sjors Stuurman. He compiled the results in a book he wrote for Muzee Scheveningen.
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Women collecting the Middle East: collaborators and collections
Who assembled the collections of museums? The answer to this question seems to point to men as collectors. Apart from for rare exceptions, female collectors hardly seem to exist. Yet there were indeed women collectors. For the project Museums, Collections and Society, researcher Holly O'Farrell will…
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Tarlach McGonagleFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
- University to raise orange flag against violence against women
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Dan SaxonFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Linda LouisFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jenneke EversFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Elizabeth (Liesbeth) de LangeScience
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Experience and Voice: Library of Colombian Women Writers - Symposium & Workshop
From Soledad Acosta de Samper and Albalucía Angel to Hazel Robinson Abrahams and Amalialú Posso Figueroa. During the Symposium & Workshop Experience and Voice: Library of Colombian Women Writers, we focus on books written by Colombian women writers from different historical periods. The symposium and…
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Inclusion on International Women’s Day: pulling together for structural change
How do you achieve the structural change needed for a more inclusive university community? What challenges do female staff face in their careers and what does it take to be a woman in a leadership role? This is what over 40 female staff members from the university discussed on International Women’s…
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Pinar ÖlcerFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Honorary doctorate for child rights activist Graça Machel
Mozambican politician and child rights activist Graça Machel will receive an honorary doctorate from Leiden University for her commitment to the rights of women and children in Africa and elsewhere. She will be awarded the honorary doctorate on the Dies Natalis, the University’s foundation day, on 8…
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International Women’s Day
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Gorillas abducting women leads to new art history
Two statues of gorillas abducting women: they were what led PhD candidate Dick van Broekhuizen to write a new type of history of nineteenth-century sculpture. ‘If you view nineteenth-century art history from a less narrow perspective, the narrative changes completely.’ PhD ceremony on 21 June.
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Marieke BaldeeFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Marit RuitenbergFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Sofia de JongFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jan-peter LoofFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Alumna first female rector of Venice: 'More women needed in academia'
Alumna Tiziana Lippiello became the first female rector magnificus of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice last year. In this way, she hopes to contribute to emancipation in the academic world: 'We need more women here.'