The Clinton Global Initiative: Learning And Reflections From AWID And FRIDA
As first-time participants, AWID and FRIDA - The Young Feminist Fund share reflections on the recent Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) and ask readers to reflect with us on engaging in global agenda-setting spaces like CGI.
Uncomfortable bedfellows in the fight against climate change
Public and private sectors say they need to collaborate more, but would it benefit those worst affected by disasters?
Pakistan's Human Rights Scrutiny
Child rights issues in Pakistan will be discussed at the Universal Periodic Review at this week's Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland. The author discusses concerns and recommendations raised by the Child Rights Movement, a coalition of 108 national and international organizations working for child rights in Pakistan in its report, which will be used in the review.
Addressing Social Justice: The Pro Bono Challenge in Spain
The economic downturn and the resulting cuts in government funding for the disadvantaged have generated a tremendous need for pro bono legal assistance in Spain
Aid world undercuts development by failing to fund media
Mae Azango is one courageous reporter. But she is also a potent weapon in the fight for human rights. Azango's reporting on female genital cutting (FGC) in her native Liberia earlier this year, brought death threats and sent her and her nine-year-old daughter into hiding.
Blog-What makes a man rape a young girl
Katy Migiro discusses the difficulties facing the head of a Girls Rescue Centre in Kenya in getting justice for young rape victims
Green Climate Fund meeting: highs, lows and a host country
Civil society groups are concerned the fund hasn't yet agreed on how they can participate in meetings
A clarion call to eradicate polio-India can help
It is nothing short of a miracle that India is defeating a disease that ravaged more than 150,000 people just 27 years ago, writes Siddharth Chatterjee
GREEN SHOOTS OF DISCOVERY: Young People take on Europe
The world's climate is changing at an unprecedented rate. From reduced ice cover, to warmer rivers, to altered marine biological systems - we're living with signs of what could be to come. While people of all ages will feel the impact, it is ultimately future generations who will have to bear the brunt.
Global food crisis of 2013 - the gender disparity blindness
In light of a probable food crisis next year, climate forecasts will play an ever more crucial role