"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

Programs

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

3 weeks ago

International Center for Advocates Against Discrimination - ICAAD

"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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International Center for Advocates Against Discrimination - ICAAD

1 month 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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1 month 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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1 month ago

International Center for Advocates Against Discrimination - ICAAD

"In criminological literature we refer to it as “desistence” now. People commit crimes at a lower frequency and at a lower severity, and eventually most of those people stop committing crimes eventually. But it’s not just this linear thing of you’re either a criminal or not a criminal. And this appears with these racial extremists. They don’t go from this extreme hate to just all of a sudden like, “Oh, you know what? I’m going to give that up because”—like you said—“I read a Martin Luther King book” or something. Not that those can’t facilitate that, because they do, and things like that are important. But just to say it’s a process that people move through, and they move back and forth through this process." ... See MoreSee Less

Why Some White Supremacists Eventually Give Up on Hate

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The fascinating research on 50 “formers”—racist extremists who slowly changed.
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International Center for Advocates Against Discrimination - ICAAD

2 months ago

International Center for Advocates Against Discrimination - ICAAD

"They also concluded that scores were manipulated to give men more points than women and thus hold down the number of women admitted, since school officials felt they were more likely to quit the profession after having children, or for other reasons." ... See MoreSee Less

"Makes me shake with rage": Japan probe shows university cut women's test scores

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Scores were manipulated to give men more points than women and thus hold down the number of women admitted
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