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End Poverty - Be the Generation

To keep the focus on action and accountability to reach the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, the Global call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP), Oxfam International, Save theChildren and Comic Reli...

Global

Food & health & development, Poverty

Witnessed: 771 times

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Social and environmental policy consultations - European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Bankwatch International Affairs coordinator Petr Hlobil reports from London on the results of consultations with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on the Bank's draft Environmental ...

Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Southern Europe

Labor, Sustainable development, Women's rights

Witnessed: 354 times

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Celebrating CRPD: Gender Perspective

Around the world, women are traditionally expected to take care of vulnerable, sick and family members with disability....

Global

Mental disability rights, Physical disability, Women's rights

Witnessed: 617 times

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IWD 2008: Sheila Dauer of Amnesty Internationa USA's Women's Human Rights Campaign (part 1)

Sheila Dauer, Director of Amnesty International USA's Women's Human Rights Program discuses its Stop Violence Against Women Campaign (SVAW) and how you can get involved....

United States

Indigenous peoples, Rape and sexual abuse, Violence against women

Witnessed: 816 times

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IWD 2008: Sunila Abeyesekera on women human rights defenders

Women human rights defenders are confronted by difficult challenges when they work in male dominated environments and are often stigmatized and sometimes become victims of gender specific violations t...

Sri Lanka

Violence against women

Witnessed: 2708 times

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IWD 2008: Neelanjana Mukhia (ActionAid)

Why is it important to understand the intersection of HIV/AIDS and violence against women (VAW) and what makes it a human rights issue?...

Global

HIV-AIDS, Violence against women

Witnessed: 2017 times

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IWD 2008: Lydia Alpízar on why money matters

Lydia Alpízar, the Executive Director of AWID, explains why financing for gender equality matters: without resources there is no implementation of hard-won political commitment to uphold women's huma...

Global

Violence against women

Witnessed: 2216 times

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IWD 2008: Mary Wandia from ActionAid Kenya (part 2)

Mary Wandia, the Regional Women's Rights Coordinator for ActionAid in Kenya, speaks about the post-election violence against women in Kenya and the post-conflict reconciliation process and her role in...

Kenya

Elections, Violence against women

Witnessed: 788 times

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IWD 2008: Heather Grady Invites You to Join the Every Human Has Rights Campaign

Heather Grady, Policy Director of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative, speaks about the The Elders-initiated Every Human Has Rights campaign and how you can get involved....

Global

Violence against women

Witnessed: 991 times

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IWD 2008: Heather Grady - Invitation to the Every Human Has Rights Campaign

Heather Grady, Policy Director of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative, speaks about the Every Human Has Rights campaign and how you can get involved.

Global

Violence against women

Witnessed: 2114 times

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