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News
- 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.
- The Road to Copenhagen Climate Justice Hearing in Ghana
- "All the faces we have captured in the video, the over 10,000 real signatures we have stored, the thousands of youth and students we have inspired and the honourable chiefs and Elders we have engaged with, are all looking forward to only one ACTION, which is to end poverty and climate change NOW!"
- Civil society meets in parallel to FAO World Summit on Food Security in Rome
- Civil society around the world has been working on organizing the CSOs Forum parallel to the FAO World Summit on Food Security starting in Rome yesterday.
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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
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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.
