Topic: Advocacy

Stand-alone goals on gender and climate change a major achievement, a meaningful and well-resourced implementation plan will now be crucial

I’ve been privileged to join the final World Humanitarian Summit Regional Consultation in South and Central Asia this week in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, and all in all it has been a mixed bag.

Martha Rojas-Urrego, CARE International Head of Global Advocacy, follows the latest negotiations for the Post-2015 Development Agenda in New York. Here she explains CARE’s position on the latest draft of what will be adopted by the global community in September.

Geneva/Addis Ababa (July 16th, 2015) - As the Third International Conference on Financing for Development in Ethiopia ends today, CARE International warns of the effect that insufficient funding will have on the ambitious development agenda the world has set itself in 2015:

A woman squats on the cement floor, biting her lip hard. She has travelled for two days, by foot to get here, after being turned away from another health center that had no beds left.

The 59th session of the Committee on the Status of Women (CSW59) that took place in New York from 9 to 21 March aimed at reviewing the progress made on the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action 20 years on.

On April 7th, 2015 the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) revoked the licenses of 13 Money Remittance Providers (MRPs) based in Nairobi, in an effort to curb the financing of terrorism.

“ With our conduct we can put fear in somebody or we can put love in somebody.” – Teenage boy from Bosnia discussing masculinity and violence.

UN Commission on the Status of Women: Ending Child, Early and Forced Marriage - What Works and How to Measure it