Articles, Human Rights Advocacy & Education
Today is Juneteenth, marking the day in 1865 when a Union Army general arrived in Texas with 2,000 soldiers, and informed over 250,000 Black Americans enslaved in Texas that slavery had been abolished following the conclusion of the Civil War. This was two and a half...
Articles, Human Rights Advocacy & Education, Inclusive AI & Justice Tech
ICAAD recently participated in a workshop by the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence on Explainability in Machine Learning. The idea behind explainable AI is to build accountability, transparency, and trust in the outputs of AI-driven programs. These programs are...
Articles, Human Rights Advocacy & Education
Disrupting Unjust Systems Through Behavioral Science & Design Thinking, a half-semester course that concluded earlier this month, explored how to address issues of bias, stereotyping, and customary practices that shape discriminatory systems globally. From...
Articles, Gender Justice & Ending Violence, Human Rights Advocacy & Education |
Discriminatory Laws Under the Spotlight ICAAD with Seychelles President Danny Faure and Mauritius Advocates The Commonwealth Equality & Justice Forum 2020 was hosted by the Royal Commonwealth Society and brought together over fifty Equality & Justice Alliance...
Gender Justice & Ending Violence, Human Rights Advocacy & Education, Publications
Executive Summary One third of all women and girls worldwide face an ongoing epidemic of gender-based violence (GBV). Gender discrimination in the form of GBV, bias/ stereotyping, myths, customary practices, patriarchy, and toxic masculinity shapes societal...
Articles, Climate Justice & Displacement, Gender Justice & Ending Violence, Human Rights Advocacy & Education, Inclusive AI & Justice Tech
In this unique time, it is inspiring that some of the clearest voices calling for change are young people; people like Greta Thunberg, Malala Yousafzai, and Marley Diaz. And those youth are calling for all people (civil society, corporations, and governments) to...
