Disability Innovation Strategy 2021 – 2024 Global Disability Innovation Hub

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GDI Hub is a research and practice centre driving disability innovation for a fairer world. Operational in over 35 countries, we work with more than 70 partners, delivering projects across a portfolio of £50m. GDI Hub has reached 12 million people since its launch in 2016 by developing bold approaches, building innovative partnerships, and creating ecosystems to accelerate change.

Online Course on Civil Resistance and Nonviolent Conflict

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Centre for Social Change (CSC) calls for a four weeklong online course on Civil Resistance and Nonviolent Conflict. It offers youth, students, practitioners, and scholars a great opportunity to learn about and reflect upon ways to achieve social change nonviolently. This course intends to enhance a general knowledge about the dynamics and effectiveness of civil resistance and provides opportunity

The Handbook to Guide the Reception and Integration of Resettled Refugees (UNHCR)

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The Handbook to Guide the Reception and Integration of Resettled Refugees grew from a seed planted in 2001 at the International Conference on the Reception and Integration of Resettled Refugees (ICRIRR) hosted by the Government of Sweden. Several hundred government officials, UNHCR andNGO representatives and resettled refugees gathered for intensive discussions on how to help resettled refugee

Carmelo Anthony nominated with inaugural Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Social Justice Champion Award

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On Anthony's behalf, $100,000 will be donated to the Portland Art Museum’s Black Arts and Experiences Initiative

Do Not Revive Coal: Planned Asia coal plants a danger to Paris (Carbon Tracker)

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Renewables continue to increase their cost competitiveness versus coal, with 27% of the global coal fleet unprofitable today. Do Not Revive Coal is the third annual report in Carbon Tracker’s Powering Down Coal series. The report finds around 70% of the global fleet relies to some degree on policy support and would likely be unprofitable in the absence of market distortions.

FROM THE EU: EU Asylum Agency, Council presidency and European Parliament reach provisional agreement

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The Council presidency and European Parliament representatives reached a provisional agreement on an EU asylum agency regulation.The regulation establishing the EU asylum agency aims to improve the application of asylum policy within the EU, by turning the current European asylum support office (EASO) into a fully-fledged agency.

What is intersectionality? The Center for Intersectional Justice

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The Center for Intersectional Justice is an independent nonprofit organization based in Berlin dedicated to advancing equality and justice for all by combating intersecting forms of structural inequality and discrimination in Europe. We envision a world free of systemic oppression in which each individual has access to resources, voice, power and safety.

Generation Equality Forum in Paris Starts today

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The Generation Equality Forum is a landmark event to accelerate progress on gender equality. The Forum kicked off in Mexico City in March 2021 and will culminate in Paris from 30 June to 2 July 2021, launching a series of concrete, ambitious and transformative actions to achieve immediate and irreversible progress towards gender equality.

New report calls for transformative action for racial justice

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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet has released a report calling on Member States to adopt a “transformative agenda” to uproot systemic racism.

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