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Advocacy

Advocacy

Sustainable development will not be achieved through aid alone. DanChurchAid is alert to the importance of overcoming the structural barriers obstructing the rights of poor, marginalised and oppressed population groups.

Graffiti on the Israeli wall showing a little girl lifted over the wall by a lot of balloons, Israel-Palestine, 2005
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Main priorities

In close cooperation with partners, DanChurchAid strives to integrate advocacy into all its emergency and development programmes. The main priorities of DanChurchAid's advocacy work are HIV/AIDS and hunger (food security).

Changing attitudes

DanChurchAid campaigns to make sure that the rich part of the world acknowledges its responsibility for a better distribution of wealth at the global level. The advocacy initiatives consist of lobby activities, media action, popular mobilisation, and alliance-building.

Articles about advocacy


04.03.2010: The ABC's of Advocacy
DanChurchAid has published an advocacy manual to provide a tool for marginalised or discriminated groups, and the civil society organisations that work on their behalf, to advocate for the equal rights and opportunities of all citizens, regardless of their gender, religious or ethnic belonging. Read more...


03.02.2010: Parents struggle for Justice
Dusty, worn down roads and a diversion through fields onto a muddy track lead to Kumha, a village located in Southern Bharatpur, - an upper caste Jat dominated district of Rajasthan. This is a village where a young Dalit girl was gangraped by three upper caste men. She committed suicide. Read more...


28.12.2009: Goodbye 2009 - Hello 2010!
Climate summit in Copenhagen and a surge in the number of people lacking basic nutrition – 2009 was a year of great challenges, but also of generosity, hope and new opportunities. We look back upon 2009 and some of the main events for DanChurchAid. Read more...


21.12.2009: Minimal progress in Copenhagen
COP 15 ended with a Copenhagen declaration after 28 hours of uninterrupted negotiations on Saturday the 19th. Targets and money are missings, says DanChurchAid. Read more...


13.12.2009: Tutu: We say no to Climate Injustice
Around 5000 people were charmed by the former arc bishop in South Africa Desmond Tutu, when he handed over more than half a million signatures in the Countdown to Co2penhagen campaign in Central Copenhagen Read more...


12.12.2009: 100.000 marched for the climate
Around 1000 Countdown to Copenhagen Activist joined the big, peaceful climate demonstration with around 100.000 participants.
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09.12.2009: When the Rains Fail – Ethiopia’s struggle against climate change
Download full version of the new book by Malene Haakanson, who portrays the struggle of an Ethiopian family over the course of one year. Read more...


07.12.2009: Guide to Copenhagen during COP 15
The climate summit may be invite only - But Copenhagen is alive with climate related activities during COP 15. Join DanChurchAids many activities in Copenhagen - We reccomend a number of public access events in Copenhagen during the climate summit.
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07.12.2009: Camp Countdown
Join us when the DanChurchAid Youth Network builds a climate refugee camp at “Vor Frue Plads” during COP15 on the 10 and 11 December. Read more...


01.12.2009: Tutu: HIV is not statistical
All of these people are not statistics. This is the child of somebody, it is the mother of some child. It is the father of a family.” A major religious leader says the world can no longer think of HIV in developing countries as a problem that sits in isolation from other countries.
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18.11.2009: Save the Kyoto Protocol
The wealthy nations should not be able to shirk their previously committed promises of reducing their CO2 emissions Read more...


02.11.2009: Appeals from Bali to Copenhagen
Participants at the Bali Climate Conference describe their expectations for COP 15 in Copenhagen. Interviewees are all representing ngo's working with climate change and the impact on the worlds poorest. Read more...


02.11.2009: EU Finance Ministers pass on the climate buck
NGOs call on Europe’s leaders to commit new money or risk climate deal collapse Read more...


28.05.2009: Empowering widows and single women in Rajasthan
DCA supports Astha, an NGO working in Southern Rajasthan since 1989. Astha has - among a number of other activities - initiated several organisations to empower widows and other single women. Read more...


15.05.2009: Struggle for land of the Saharia tribe in Southern Rajasthan
Ekta Parishad works to organize and mobilize tribal and landless communities on land right issues. Read more...