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News
- More Climate Justice Hearings Videos
- Watch video and slideshows from the GCAP Climate Justice Hearings currently taking place around the world in the run up to the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
- Watch videos from the Climate Justice Hearings
- Climate Justice hearings are taking place around the world, videos, photos and other documentation will be posted online as it comes in.
- Climate Justice Poverty Hearings gathering pace around the world
- Climate Justice Poverty Hearings and Women's Tribunals on Climate Justice have been taking place for the last month from Peru to Ghana to the Seychelles, with more scheduled to take place in the run up to next month's UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
- Women's Tribunals on Poverty and Climate Justice in the Niger Delta region
- Earlier this month, the Feminist Task Force of the Global Call to Action against Poverty organised a tribunal focusing on poverty and climate justice, specifically water management and pollution. Witnesses included 119 years old Madam Gbenana Abariowei, one of the survival of the Odi ‘massacre’, among other community members, jurists and experts.
- Eradicating world hunger
- Al Jazeera's Inside Story discusses with guests Abdolreza Abbassian, an economist at the Food and Agriculture Organisation ( FAO), Sylvia Borren, a co-chair of Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP), and Vandana Shiva, an environmental activist and author.
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Events coming up
- World Dignity Day 2009 (, from 2009-12-05 00:00 to 2009-12-05 00:00)
- COP15 - UNFCCC Climate Change 2009 (Copenhagen, Denmark, from 2009-12-07 00:00 to 2009-12-18 00:00)
GCAP Mobilisation
GCAP is hosting a series of Climate Justice Poverty Hearings and Women's Tribunals on Climate Justice in the run up to the Climate Change conference in Copenhagen. Check out the Climate Justice space for the latest updates. Earlier this year we mobilised on
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GCAP Around the world
There are national coalitions of the Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) in over 100 countries worldwide. Click on a region or select from the dropdown menu to access regional or national information.
