Jun 8, 2016 | News
IfE’s Deborah S. Rogers brought messages from Field Hearings communities around the world to the UN on 06 June 2016. The central message she delivered was that “the key to working effectively on behalf of poor, socially excluded and marginalized communities is to let...
Feb 7, 2016 | News
IfE’s partner organizations in Burundi, DR Congo and Uganda are building a citizens’ network to monitor threats to peace and human rights in the troubled African Great Lakes Region. Decades of poor governance, economic exploitation, ethnic strife and regional conflict...
Nov 25, 2015 | News
Over 200 civil society groups from more than 50 countries around the world have now endorsed IfE’s “International Civil Society Call to Address Inequalities and Social Justice in Climate Policy.” (READ & SIGN). The Call focuses attention on the relationships...
Sep 29, 2015 | News
Goal 10, “Reducing inequalities within and among countries,” is a centerpiece of the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), negotiated for the past 3 years and adopted on 25 September 2015 by all nations in the UN. (Read more here.) IfE was instrumental in the...
Aug 3, 2015 | News
IfE partners in Sierra Leone are launching Field Hearings among Ebola survivors around Freetown to learn how they experienced the disease, its impacts, and the efforts to stop Ebola and prevent further outbreaks. Led by Simon Olagai of Freetown, the Field Hearings...
Jul 20, 2015 | News
A transition from a development paradigm of “aid and charity” to one of “justice and equality” is currently underway, with the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) talking about human rights, equality, and participation by all, including the poorest and most...
