Sep 5, 2014 | News
IfE’s Deborah Rogers served as the focal point on inequalities for the Conference Outcome Document at the United Nations Department of Public Information’s NGO Conference in August of 2014. The conference, which was held at the UN headquarters in New York...
Jan 18, 2014 | News
IfE is developing a stand-alone goal and targets on equality for the new Sustainable Development Goals, at the request of the UN’s Open Working Group. Your input is solicited. (1) Click here to see the proposed goal and suggested targets: CONSULTATION CLOSED (2) Go to...
Dec 7, 2013 | News
Citing the demands of poor, socially excluded and marginalized communities expressed during Field Hearings around the world, IfE President Deborah S. Rogers has called for a stand-alone goal on reducing inequalities, to be included in the new Sustainable Development...
Sep 25, 2013 | News
The Equity & Sustainability Field Hearings Project now has over 250 partners in 67 countries, ready to bring the voices of more than 500 economically insecure, socially excluded, or marginalized communities into the current sustainable development discussions....
Feb 1, 2013 | News
According to a press briefing prepared by Oxfam, the 100 richest billionaires in the world added $240 billion to their annual incomes in 2012 – enough to end extreme poverty four times over. The Brookings Institution had earlier calculated that ending extreme poverty...
Jan 4, 2013 | News
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” – 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Without the concept of equality, the human rights framework loses its ethical power. If we truly intend to protect universal human rights, there is no...
