Dr. Bhavani Rao, UNESCO Chairholder on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment participated in an experts’ gender consultation on UNESCO’s Right to Higher Education project. At the event titled: “Thematic Expert. . .
On January 6, 2023, a remarkable gathering of gender-related UNESCO Chairs assembled under the roof of UNESCO/UNITWIN to address growing tendencies towards anti-gender discourses and policies at a global scale.. . .
The Third Annual Meeting of UNESCO Chairs in India, conducted by UNESCO New Delhi, was attended by Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh (UNESCO Chair on Experiential Learning for Sustainable Innovation and Development, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham). . .
The Center for Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality conducted a six-day online Faculty Development Program “Online Teaching and Content Creation” for the MSW Faculty of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri and Coimbatore campuses,. . .
The Center for Women’s Empowerment & Gender Equality in collaboration with the Amrita Center for Research and Development (ACRD), recently organized an international workshop for researchers on “Defining and Refining – Research Methodology Workshop on First Steps in Research” from August 2 – 4, 2019.
Amrita’s UNESCO Chair in Women’s Empowerment & Gender Equality hosted its first international colloquium from December 17-19, 2018, at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus, Kerala.
On the occasion of World Mental Health Day on October 10, 2018, Master of Social Work students from Amrita Center for Women’s Empowerment & Gender Equality, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus, staged a street play in front of the people gathered at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Center and at the old age homes and public schools they visited during their internship with AIMS hospital, Kochi.
On August 6, 2018, a new batch of students was inducted into the Amrita Master of Social Work program at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus. Offered by India’s only UNESCO Chair in Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, the Amrita MSW is a two-year full-time residential program which offers world-class opportunities in the field of Social Work.
