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Poverty will devastate Palestinian people if there is not an immediate ceasefire in Gaza

 

GCAP Liberia - report on the World AIDS day and the International Human Rights day

GCAP Liberia have organised marches and seminars in recent days to highlight World AIDS Day and International Human Rights Day.

Poverty and Human Rights Violations Are Two Sides of the Same Coin

Poverty remains a significant cause of all human rights violations committed today. If only everyone had access to better nutrition, safe drinking water, mosquito nets, rehydration packs, vaccines and the like, then we would have averted a human death toll of 18 million annually, sixty percent of whom are children. Around 2.5 billion people live in extreme poverty, most of whom are people of color and women

60th anniversary of UDHR - Youth can make it happen! (Indonesia)

Everyone has a right to live, express their needs, even to access basic knowledge. Magna Charta and the Universal Declaration of Human Right are some of the declarations that state that human rights must be adopted in all nations. But until today, do all countries do that? Or is there violent still happening but remaining concealed?

60th anniversary of UDHR - Youth and religious leaders in Mwiki - Kenya donate food to the poor.

The youth and religious leaders in Mwiki – Kasarani have today launched one year campaign to eradicate hunger in the area. Speaking during the launch, the National Coordinator of the Global Call to Action against Poverty said that urban food poverty incidence in Kenya increased from 38.3% to 40.5% between1997 and 2006.

Sixty isn't so old

We gathered on Saturday evening in a beautiful Parisian palace within view of a sparkling Eiffel Tower for a special moment. The moment that some of the world’s most eminent people stood alongside with some of today’s most courageous journalists and civil society representatives to claim back our rights.

The World Needs To Re-Affirm the Universality of Human Rights

On December 1Oth, 2008, we will celebrate the 60th year of existence of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Global Call to Action against Poverty Africa (GCAP Africa) is partnering with the Every Human Has Rights campaign (EHHR) -spearheaded by the Elders including Bishop Desmond Tutu, Aung San Suu Kyi, Mary Robinson, Graçia Machel, Kofi Annan and Nelson Mandela.

December 10: Every Day should be Human Rights Day

We should celebrate the Universal Declaration’s birthday every year and uphold its values every day. It's a reminder not just of our rights but also a way to check our progress and highlight our failures in our now global village. Now that this document is 60 we need to look ahead so that economic, social and cultural rights are given the same importance as the civil and political rights we are often more familiar with.

The world needs a good COP

The 14th UN Conference of the Parties (COP) on the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is coming to a close in Poznan. More than 10,000 people descended on this ancient Polish town for up to two weeks for supposedly critical talks towards a breakthrough climate change deal at next year’s conference in Copenhagen.

Doha FFD was another missed opportunity as poverty levels plummet drastically

December 5th, 2008; The final declaration of the UN Summit on Financing for Development this week lacks the depth of commitment required to address the growing disaster befalling millions of people living in poverty throughout the developing world. Campaigners from the Global Call to Action Against Poverty condemned the power battles that dominated much of the proceedings, the lack of timelines for delivering aid and implementing just trade rules, as well as the overall lack of urgency in tackling mounting hunger levels around the world.

Climate Change, Poznań 2008 - Campaign against Climate Change

The UNFCCC Conference of the Parties, Climate Change Conference has started in – Poland on the 1st and will end on the 12th December.The conference brings together the 192 Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which includes the United States, and the 183 Parties to the Kyoto Protocol. The European Community and all Member States are Parties to both.

Promises, Promises, Promises...

I am afraid the world really needs to wake up to the climate crisis. Not just the very real and urgent crisis affecting weather patterns and people all over the world. But the equally real and urgent crisis in leadership to solve the problem.

Climate change: we must show the way - Local views: South Asia

Global warming as a result of climate change has raised the awareness and environmental consciousness of the global community. Whilst the effects of greenhouse gases and its effect on the environment may grace our news screen for a brief time, these issues, although important, have been overshadowed by more pressing concerns such as the global war on terror and the recent economic depression.

Sharing power is not easy...

Sharing power in a world which is clamouring for inclusive and effective democracy at the UN level, is obviously not easy for the rich countries. But it is exactly the power of money rather than putting people and values at the centre which has got the world in this mess of multi-crises - what I call a moral crisis.

Global Protest on Climate Change, Saturday 6th December

Citizens all around the world will be joining demonstrations to demand urgent action on climate change from world governments at the UN Climate Talks in Poznan, Poland (1st – 12th December). Please see below for international contacts

GCAP Learning Excercise 2008 - Somalia and Kenya

 

Good but not enough: Women’s Rights and Gender Equality in Doha 2008

The Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development welcomes the fact that the outcome document of the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development in Doha goes far beyond the 2002 Monterrey Consensus with regard to gender equality. But this is not enough. We urge that gender equality policy commitments and actions on development, trade, finance, debt, aid and systemic issues will be strongly addressed in the follow-up process and the planned UN Conference at the highest level.

How does Civic Society evaluate the outcome of the Doha UN Financing for Development – Review Conference

Members of 250 civil society organizations and networks representing more than one hundred million citizens around the world came together in a Civil Society Forum (Doha, Qatar, 25-27 November, 2008) leading to the Review Conference for Financing for Development. We prepared and presented to the Review Conference a Civil Society Declaration under the theme “investing in people-centred development.” We addressed an open letter to the President of the General Assembly, citing our hopes and lead recommendations for the Conference.

Rollercoaster negotiations in Doha

On the second day of the Financing for Development (FfD) International Review Conference, negotiations went into a spin following anti-democratic power-play by the Bush administration.

Get out of the “woods”! Civil Society supports UN-led Summit on finances

As one of the lead elements proposed for recommendation to the Financing for Development Review Conference, the Civil Society Forum supports an international summit on financial and economic architecture and global economic governance structures, in 2009. The Forum position challenges the proposal of some governments that the Bretton Woods Institutions (the World Bank and International Monetary Fund) organize an event, as well as moves to concentrate decision-making in the G-20 group of governments.

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