Charlotte Bunch
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Charlotte Bunch (born October 13, 1944, North Carolina). She grew up in Artesia, New Mexico. She is an American activist, author and organizer in women's and human rights movements.
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[edit] Biography
Charlotte Bunch graduated Duke University in 1966 with a B.A. in History and Political Science. She went on to undertake graduate research at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C.. A Board of Governor’s Distinguished Service Professor in Women's and Gender Studies, Bunch was previously a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and founder of Washington D.C. publications, Women's Liberation and Quest: A Feminist Quarterly.
Her studies focused on education and social change. In 1989 she founded the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University, of which she remains the executive director. In 1996 Bunch was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. In 1999 she was selected by United States President Bill Clinton as a recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights.
She received the "Women Who Make a Difference Award" from the National Council for Research on Women in 2000 and was honored as one of the "21 Leaders for the 21st Century" by Women's Enews in 2002 and also received the “Board of Trustees Awards for Excellence in Research” in 2006 at Rutgers University.
She has served on the boards of numerous organizations and is currently a member of the Advisory Committee for the Human Rights Watch Women's Rights Division, and on the Boards of the Global Fund for Women and the International Council on Human Rights Policy. She has been a consultant to many United Nations bodies and recently served on the Advisory Committee for the Secretary General’s 2006 Report to the General Assembly on Violence against Women. [1]
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- Director, International Council on Human Rights Policy
- Member, Human Rights Watch Women's Rights Advisory Committee
- Advisory Council, Women’s Learning Partnership
- Advisory Council, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative
- Policy Council, Center for Women Policy Studies
[edit] Publications
- 1970, The New Women: A Motive Anthology on Women’s Liberation
- 1974, Class and Feminism; Women Remembered: Short Biographies of Women in History
- 1975, Lesbianism and the Women’s Movement
- 1981, Building Feminist Theory: Essays from Quest
- 1983, Learning Our Way: Essays in Feminist Education
- 1984, International Feminism: Networking Against Female Sexual Slavery
- 1987, Passionate Politics: Feminist Theory in Action
- 1994, Demanding Accountability: The Global Campaign and Vienna Tribunal Women’s Human Rights
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- Watkins, M. Charlotte Bunch (1944- ), 1999
