Charlotte
Bunch is an American author, professor, activist and organizer in the women's
and human rights movements. In 1989 she founded
the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University, and continues
to be its executive director as well as professor of Women's and Gender Studies.
For over three decades, Charlotte Bunch has been a major voice for bringing issues
of gender and sexual orientation into human rights work all around the world,
through her written works and as an advisor to international human rights organizations
and speaker at United Nations and other international conferences. She
was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996 and in 1999 was awarded
the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights by President Bill Clinton. In 2005
she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize as part of the 1000 Women For Peace
project.
