A4ID have joined the UN Global Compact, the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative. The UN Global Compact is the platform for business to act on global goals to advance the SDGs through their operations, innovations and partnerships.
In honour of Human Rights Day, A4ID CEO Yasmin Batliwala said:
Following stellar feedback from participants at last year’s Law and Development Training Programme, a new session of thought-provoking seminars and discussions on the relationship between the legal and development sectors is now underway.
After a great summer in Canary Wharf, thanks to our warm hosts Clifford Chance, A4ID is moving.
Following the formal introduction of the Sustainable Development Goals at the UN Sustainable Development Summit, Yasmin Batliwala, CEO of Advocates for International Development (A4ID) said:
Autumn Adeigbo told A4ID about the inspiration behind MAKOKO and described what it took to make her dream a reality…
A4ID has written to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urging him to include a goal focussed on promoting good governance and the Rule of Law in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Our CEO Yasmin Batliwala received Woman of Achievement 2014 Category Award for Public Sector from the prestigious Women in the City.
A4ID’s CEO spoke at Tokyo Annual Conference of the 2014 International Bar Association.
A4ID has recently launched its new Legal Health Check tool for international development organisations, designed to promote a better, more in-depth understanding of their legal needs, and thus helping them in their fight against global poverty and injustice.
