Congratulations to the Kichwa community of Puerto Franco in the Peruvian Amazon and their allies - SAGE grantees Instituto de Defensa Legal, Forest Peoples Programme and Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF) - on this legal victory: the creation of the park must respect FPIC & the Kichwa must benefit from the carbon credit project!
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SAGE cultivates powerful new ways to build a healthy, just, and inclusive global economy. Our “laboratory” approach equips advocates across fields with the financial and technical resources along with hands-on support that creates breakthrough strategies that hold economic actors accountable. Since 2015, the Fund has supported 45 projects with $6 million in over 40 countries, creating a pipeline for emerging work on human rights and the global economy. SAGE concentrates collective work on a theme that is poised for innovation and builds a critical mass of strategy development and learning around that theme, sharing it with civil society organizations, movements and donors for greater impact.
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Congratulations to Migrant-Rights.org for this well-earned award! Migrant-Rights.org, as part of its work, seeks to advance a fair social organization of care in Gulf countries by building the capacity of migrant care workers and associations to advocate for rights; growing an evidence base to transform public policy discourse and practice on care work; and, creating pathways for future advocacy in countries of origin and across the care migration corridors. SAGE looks forward to supporting Migrant-Rights.org innovative work and other work on care, from an upcoming cohort of grantees! #carework #careworkers
📣 Migrant-Rights.org wins 2024 Human Rights & Business Award at #UNForumBHR Migrant-Rights.org receives the #bizhumanrights prize for their work to advance the rights of migrant workers who make up ~90% of the Gulf workforce. Watch the video 🎥 https://lnkd.in/ebUiNGXG
[English] Announcement: 2024 recipient of the Human Rights and Business Award
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On #InternationalDayofCare, check out the data from SAGE's recent Care RFP, demonstrating the immense need for funding labor, feminist, economic, migrant and disability rights movements to develop care agendas and advocate for better policies and protections for care workers. In early 2025, SAGE will announce the grantees in its care cohort and publish a learning report with findings & analysis from our 3-yr mapping, informed by a recent briefing with the Ford Foundation and USAID on the gaps and opportunities in the field. #InternationalDayofCareandSupport
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Congratulations to SAGE grantee Justiça Ambiental (JA!) and its director, Anabela Lemos, on receiving the Right Livelihood Award for their brave & persistent advocacy to defend the rights of the communities in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique affected by LNG projects profiting Total, ENI, ExxonMobil. Learn more about JA! and its work. https://ja4change.org/ JA! is included in SAGE's 2022 Climate Justice and Corporate Accountability cohort of grants. These projects seek to hold corporations accountable for emissions and extraction that have contributed to climate change, including the harmful localized impacts on communities affected by site-specific investments. Learn more. https://lnkd.in/e8eweJv3.
Introducing the 2024 #RightLivelihood Laureates: 🇵🇭 Joan Carling 🇵🇸 Issa Amro and Youth Against Settlements 🇲🇿 Anabela Lemos and Justiça Ambiental! 🇬🇧 Forensic Architecture These change-makers are committed to using non-violent methods to speak out against oppression and exploitation ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dkw4kn5Y
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Recently, The SAGE Fund Fund in collaboration with Ford Foundation and USAID, co-hosted a learning briefing on Care to share the results of our 2024 Request for Proposals on Care and to lead a discussion among funders and civil society partners on the gaps and opportunities in the Care field and how to build a more coordinated funder landscape. Attendees to the session heard presentations from SAGE, Iris Group (on behalf of USAID), and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Research Center (IDRC) on three independent mappings done by these organizations about the state of the Care field for funders and civil society, and on how to scale promising work for greater impact. Alongside remarks from Ghada Abdel Tawab (Ford) and Bama Athreya (USAID), SAGE’s Director, Daria Caliguire, shared an overview of the response to our RFP, including the range of movements and organizations working on Care, Care Work and Care Economy. She lifted up regional trends and the areas of focus, strategies and approaches where there is growing momentum and opportunities to support more work. Insights and reflections from the event along with the findings and analysis from our 3-year mapping, grantmaking and learning initiative on Care, will culminate in a report published by SAGE in early 2025. Learn more about our Care grantmaking. https://lnkd.in/ecNBCne7 #care #carework #careeconomy Photo: Kisha Bari
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A much deserved award! Read more about the breakthrough legal cases CAJJ helped workers to bring below.
Congratulations to DRC-based legal aid group Centre d’Aide Juridico-Judiciaire (CAJJ) on winning the Gwynne Skinner Human Rights Award at International Corporate Accountability Roundtable! This is phenomenal recognition of CAJJ's innovative litigation to defend workers at industrial mines. Here are 5 key legal cases brought by workers assisted by CAJJ. https://lnkd.in/dT46PyG8 #DRC #congo #legalcase #workers #workersrights #mining
Congolese workers challenge mining companies in DRC courts
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ICYMI, check out this impressive report from SAGE grantees on the cost of Cobalt mining in DRC. "We all need a sustainable future, but this must apply equally to those in the global North as well as to those in the DRC" - Emmanuel Umpula, African Resources Watch AFREWATCH
New ground-breaking report reveals toxic pollution from industrial cobalt mines is jeopardising the health of hundreds of thousands of people. In partnership with DRC-based investigators AFREWATCH, our study, “Beneath the Green: A Critical Look at the Cost of Industrial Cobalt Mining in the DRC”, highlights the grave consequences of toxic pollution linked to industrial cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Communities we visited by said that water contamination is harming their health and having destructive consequences on local ecosystems and agriculture. Women were repeatedly cited as facing increased gynaecological and reproductive issues. Cobalt is a key component in electric vehicle (EV) batteries. The new report underscores the need for the clean energy and automotive sectors to adopt responsible sourcing practices that address these impacts and uphold human rights. Read more & share: https://lnkd.in/eGV3sDMw We are grateful to the Global Commons Alliance Accountability Accelerator for their generous support in making this research possible. African Resources Watch AFREWATCH
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A great blog about the amazing work two of SAGE's grantees, Rights and Accountability in Development (RAID) and CAJJ, are doing to support workers and secure rights in DRC's industrial cobalt mines using innovative legal strategies.
Latest: Workers are putting Congolese labour law to the test against multinational mining companies and their subcontractors, pushing back against dire working conditions, discrimination, blocking of unions and lack of health provision. Read our new release about 5 legal cases in DRC pushing for change. Led by workers, and supported by CAJJ and RAID with assistance from The SAGE Fund and The Freedom Fund, these strategic litigation challenges in DRC courts are demanding that companies uphold labour law and stop worker exploitation. https://lnkd.in/dT46PyG8 #JustTransition #DRC #Congo #Mining #CriticalMinerals #Cobalt #WorkersRights #WorkersUnions #WorkersCompensation #Exploitation
Congolese workers challenge mining companies in DRC courts
https://raid-uk.org
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The SAGE Fund reposted this
Feminist data analyst contractor #JobAlert! We are looking for candidates with experience in data visualization tools to support the Gender Justice Data Hub. Women, people of color, and LGBTQI candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. https://lnkd.in/d9WGRgXM
TERMS OF REFERENCE: Data Analyst (Remote)
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The SAGE Fund reposted this
Did you know? Although they cover only around 6% of the Earth’s land surface, 40% of all plant and animal species live or breed in wetlands. More than a billion people across the world depend on wetlands for their livelihoods – that’s about 1 in 8 people on Earth. (Source: UN) 🐟 🌿 Read more about how coastal communities in West Africa are increasingly threatened by rising sea levels and coastal erosion. https://lnkd.in/dPnXPx8R
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