The conference on the topic of “The development of gender education in the context of contemporary social-political transformations” was held at Western University on March 27, 2004.


The conference was participated by the best-known gender scholars and specialists from Azerbaijan, Turkey, Georgia, Russia as well as international experts of the World Bank.


The main directions of the sessions was:
• Civil society and gender measures of human rights
• The role of gender in conflicts and peacemaking
• Gender and globalization
• Gender and culture