Sexual and gender based violence (SGBV) has a negative and profound impact on women and girls’ lives: health, education, safety, familial relationships, economic advancement etc.. According to a U.N. Women study in the Solomon Islands, 74% of women survey believed the...
Bryan Miller, ICAAD Board Member New York, NY: I recently had the pleasure of attending an event hosted by UNICEF and The Guardian, during the United Nations General Assembly week, to get a better understanding of the recently adopted 2030 Agenda for Sustainable...
On September 24, 2015, Co-Founder of ICAAD, Hansdeep Singh, spoke on a panel to discuss Public Service Lawyering at Cardozo Law School. The focus of Hansdeep’s presentation was threefold: 1) benefits/ challenges of working in the nonprofit sector; 2) what it takes to...
Dakar, October 16, 2015 – Five weeks after the start of the trial of former Chadian dictator, Hissène Habré, 17 women’s rights organizations have issued an Open letter denouncing the insufficient attention given to sexual violence in the indictment. The letter,...
ICAAD was invited back as a member to the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) this year and was fortunate to have five team members attend the recent CGI Week of Action leading up to the upcoming CGI Annual meeting at the end of September. “Engagement with CGI members is...
Imagine a pregnant woman, waiting in a corridor for 20 days for maternal care, which is legally guaranteed, never to receive it; having a nurse ask you how much you value your sister’s life, bribing you to save her; calling for an ambulance, for it never to come; or...
