"As societies build walls of separation between communities,
ICAAD works to remove each brick to illuminate our common humanity"
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Building multidisciplinary partnerships & strategies to combat structural discrimination globally

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We believe that women & girls can reach their full potential when systems are designed to include their experiences and voices, and existing patriarchal systems are disabled. Our programs expand access to justice and human rights education by using evidence-based solutions that are institutionalized in local communities affecting millions of women & girls.
We believe that the identity of marginalized communities must be safeguarded. This happens when their ethnic, national, religious, linguistic, political, or cultural backgrounds are not seen as antithetical to the State, but rather, as a driving force towards creating a pluralistic society. Ensuring equal dignity for minorities helps to ensure just and equitable systems.
The U.N. Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism is central to how we monitor discrimination globally because of its universal coverage of human rights issues and ability to track States who have explicitly agreed to address human rights gaps by reforming their domestic policy. We train law students and civil society on law as an invaluable advocacy tool.

 

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Sexual Harassment Train the Trainers Workshop

ICAAD in partnership with The Fiji Women's Rights Movement (FWRM) organised the first ever train the trainers workshop to raise ... Read More
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Addressing Racism in VR + Donor Spotlight

Dear friend of ICAAD, This season, we are grateful that ICAAD has grown to be a vibrant community of people ... Read More
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Report Sets off Flurry of Questions for Women’s Rights Review

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) recently released an 8 page list of questions for ... Read More
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Demanding Access to Vital Services in Delhi

In December 2016, Nazdeek and ICAAD launched the SMS for Justice program in Delhi to track access to vital services ... Read More
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Global Pro Bono Report: Accessing Justice – 3 Year Anniversary Review

The Global Pro Bono Report shows the breadth and depth of ICAAD's ability to leverage multidisciplinary partnerships to catalyze social ... Read More
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Serving Vulnerable Communities Globally: Introduction to ICAAD

Vision: As societies build walls of separation between communities, ICAAD works to remove each brick to illuminate our common humanity ... Read More
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International Center for Advocates Against Discrimination - ICAAD shared AJ+'s Should Guam Be an Independent Nation?.

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International Center for Advocates Against Discrimination - ICAAD

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Americans in U.S. territories can’t vote for president. This week the Supreme Court refused to hear a case to extend voting rights to Americans in U.S. territories. Hear what people on Guam have to say about the issue: ... See MoreSee Less

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International Center for Advocates Against Discrimination - ICAAD

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International Center for Advocates Against Discrimination - ICAAD

"A man drove an Alaska Native woman to a dark street, said he would kill her and choked her until she blacked out...Having already spent a year in home confinement, he stepped out of the courtroom with no more time to serve...The case comes in a state with some of the highest sexual assault and domestic violence rates in the nation. The victim was an Alaska Native woman, a group that faces the highest sexual assault rate in Alaska at 42 percent."

There can never be equality in a culture that normalizes or trivializes sexual assault and sexual harassment. Judges like Michael Corey don't deserve to be on the bench when they fail to understand the severity of the impact of rape on victim/survivors. ... See MoreSee Less

Activists Push to Oust Alaskan Judge Who Gave No Jail Time to Man Who Assaulted Woman

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34-year-old Justin Schneider kidnapped and assaulted a woman
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"Environmental migration remains a relatively new topic, with little stocktaking and evaluation of the effectiveness of existing practices, especially those experiences related to the most innovative commitments outlined in the GCM. What is certain is that achieving the ambitious commitments set out in the Global Compact will be contingent on robust political will, adequate funding resources, and the successful development of new coalitions of actors." ... See MoreSee Less

Perspectives on Environmental Migration — 10 Key Takeaways from the Global Compact for Migration | Inter Press Service

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The GCM clearly identifies slow onset environmental degradation, natural disasters and climate change impacts as drivers of contemporary migration. Photo: IOM/Muse Mohammed
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2 months ago

International Center for Advocates Against Discrimination - ICAAD

"As Martin Luther King Jr. pointedly observed in 1965, 'As the nation, negro and white, trembled with outrage at police brutality in the South, police misconduct in the North was rationalized, tolerated and usually denied.'

Many Northerners, even ones who pushed for change in the South, were silent and often resistant to change at home. One of the grandest achievements of the modern civil rights movement – the 1964 Civil Rights Act – contained a key loophole to prevent school desegregation from coming to northern communities.

In a New York Times poll in 1964, a majority of New Yorkers thought the civil rights movement had gone too far." ... See MoreSee Less

Charlottesville belies racism's deep roots in the North

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One year after Charlottesville's white supremacist march, US racism is seen primarily as a Southern-grown problem. But Jim Crow laws started in the North, which has a long history of systemic racism.
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2 months ago

International Center for Advocates Against Discrimination - ICAAD

"In the past 50 days, at least nine people belonging to ethnic minorities have been reported shot and wounded across Italy. Eight of the attacks were carried out with BB guns — air-propelled guns whose round, metal bullets can nevertheless lead to serious injuries — and one with live bullets. One of the incidents involved a one-year-old Roma child who was shot in the back in Rome. The shooter, a government employee, would later tell police he had fired to "test the gun."" ... See MoreSee Less

9 shootings in 50 days: Italy's ugly face of racism | DW | 16.08.2018

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A string of alleged or openly racist attacks on minorities in Italy has fueled a debate about whether the country has a growing problem with racism and xenophobia. Ylenia Gostoli reports from Rome.
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