Lawyers and local advocacy organisations will gain access to an important tool needed to identify gender bias within legal decisions made in Pacific Island Countries (PICs). The International Centre for Advocates Against Discrimination (ICAAD) released a handbook detailing its methodology in examining sentencing patterns with a view […]
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ICAAD in partnership with The Fiji Women’s Rights Movement (FWRM) organised the first ever train the trainers workshop to raise awareness on combating sexual harassment in the workplace. The training targeted key stakeholders and agencies to strengthen implementation of laws and policies. The 3-day training workshop was […]
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Dear friend of ICAAD, This season, we are grateful that ICAAD has grown to be a vibrant community of people who are committed to the promotion of human rights, peace, and equality. We are excited to spotlight three of our tenacious supporters, Gail & Allen Dougherty and Laura […]
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In December 2016, Nazdeek and ICAAD launched the SMS for Justice program in Delhi to track access to vital services for women and impoverished people in in two communities, Rajiv Ratan Awas Yojana (RRAY) in Baprola and Bhim Nagar in Nangloi. In its first three months of data […]
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The Global Pro Bono Report shows the breadth and depth of ICAAD’s ability to leverage multidisciplinary partnerships to catalyze social impact; helping women, girls, and minorities to achieve equality. Inside the report you’ll find informative comments from our partners, experts in their fields, on our ambitious work […]
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Vision: As societies build walls of separation between communities, ICAAD works to remove each brick to illuminate our common humanity. Mission: The International Center for Advocates Against Discrimination (ICAAD) is an nonprofit organization founded for the charitable purpose of eradicating structural discrimination globally, and to promote human […]
Read more →Congrats to ICAAD Advisor Erin Thomas on publishing this stellar article highlighting the important ramifications for the United States' Compacts of Free Association with the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), and Palau around human rights, migration, and economic assistance leading up to the 2023-2024 renewal negotiations.
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Photo of Peacekeeper missile system being tested at the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands via Wikimedia Commons user Saperaud, licensed under CC0 by Erin Thomas* Introduction The Compacts of Free Association (COFA) with the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Republic...Australia Aboriginals win right to sue for colonial land loss
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The ruling in favour of the Ngaliwurru and Nungali groups paves the way for billions of dollars in compensation.Ten recent low-tech inventions that have changed the world
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Technologies don’t have to be cutting edge to make a profound difference in people’s lives."The justices had unwittingly acknowledged a consistent truth about racism, which is that race is whatever those in power say it is."
This article is well worth the read, and makes it clear why racism must be confronted at every opportunity.
"Grantism, despite its swift wartime eclipse, did not become extinct. The Nazis, initially puzzled by U.S. hostility, underestimated the American commitment to democracy. As the Columbia historian Ira Katznelson writes in Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time (2013), the South remained hawkish toward Nazi Germany because white supremacists in the U.S. didn’t want to live under a fascist government. What they wanted was a herrenvolk democracy, in which white people were free and full citizens but nonwhites were not."
White Nationalism’s Deep American Roots
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A long-overdue excavation of the book that Hitler called his “bible,” and the man who wrote it