Peace and Security
Violent conflicts around the world are consistently increasing the number of displaced persons and refugees around the world. Although not limited to developing countries, the impacts of conflicts on countries with high levels of poverty and inequality are particularly pronounced. Indeed, the inter-linkage between peace and poverty (i.e. the influence of lack of security on increasing poverty and unemployment on one hand and the influence of poverty and social marginalisation on possibilities for instability and conflict) has been discussed in the declaration resulting from the 2010 UN MDGs Review Conference. In this context, the international community discussed foreign occupation as a major obstacle to the realization of the Millennium Development Goals for peoples living under such occupation, and thus the need to take concrete and concerted actions in conformity with international law to remove such obstacles.
GCAP has called attention to the centrality of peace and security in the Millennium Declaration and adopted related language in the Beirut and Montevideo Declarations. The International Day of Peace (September 21st) is also one of the identified mobilization days for the global alliance. GCAP will continue to play an active role in creating awareness through an early warning system, in providing timely information to the global community and in providing support to the victims and engaging with the governments and other factions for peace cannot be over-emphasized. At the regional and global levels, GCAP will direct its efforts towards providing solidarity, exerting global pressure and using their influence to get global responses to solve violent confrontations.
GCAP will work to ensure:
Towards this end we will act to:
By 2014, these actions will result in:
"The Global Call to Action Against Poverty can take its place as a public movement alongside the movement to abolish slavery and the international solidarity against apartheid." ~ Nelson Mandela. GCAP honours Mandela's words as we fight for justice and commemorate Int'l Rural Women's Day, World Food Day and Int'l Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Watch Mandiba's famous Make Poverty History speech.
- Climate Chane is already here, a letter form Kampala
- GCAP at the COP21 in Paris
- Solidarity, Justice and Freedom
- GCAP at the COP21 in Paris
- Solidarity Justice and Freedom. A statement after the recent terror attacks
- International Civil Society Call to Address Inequalities and Social Justice in Climate
- The New York Declaration
- CSO letter to Vice President Timmermans on the 2030 Agenda
- GCAP response to Addid Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA)
- Reactive on Zero Draft Post 2015
- From Labour Rights to Citizen Participation - the first 16 days of May Mobilisations
- Climate Justice, All Ages and Sexual and Reproductive Rights - May Mobilisations Continue
- The Elephant is Waiting!
- GCAP Statement on Forests, Food, & Nutrition
- GCAP Solidarity with Nepal
- Release the five Women Activists Now!
- Launch of action/2015
- A Red Flag for the United Nations
- Action/2015 - Launching Today
- "Peshawar: Social Justice, Not Terror"
- "Mutual Accountability: Data on its own is not enough"