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Climate Justice Poverty Hearings and Women's Tribunals on Climate Justice have been taking place for the last month from Peru to Ghana to the Seychelles, with more scheduled to take place in the run up to next month's UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.

A Women’s tribunal on climate justice in the Indian capital aims to bring in gender equity in the climate debate. OneWorld South Asia met some of the women, who travelled from far flung parts of the country to voice stories of survival and adaptation.

Earlier this month, the Feminist Task Force of the Global Call to Action against Poverty organised a tribunal focusing on poverty and climate justice, specifically water management and pollution...

Al Jazeera's Inside Story discusses with guests Abdolreza Abbassian, an economist at the Food and Agriculture Organisation ( FAO), Sylvia Borren, a co-chair of Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP), and Vandana Shiva, an environmental activist and author.

"All the faces we have captured in the video, the over 10,000 real signatures we have stored, the thousands of youth and students we have inspired and the honourable chiefs and Elders we have engaged with, are all looking forward to only one ACTION, which is to end poverty and climate change NOW!"

Read the latest on Climate Justice Poverty Hearings, World Dignity Day, the G8/G20 Working Group meeting in Ottawa and planning to the MDGs Review Summit. Also check out the new GCAP Works section!

Civil society around the world has been working on organizing the CSOs Forum parallel to the FAO World Summit on Food Security starting in Rome yesterday.

This year Stand Up and Take Action Against Poverty and Inequality mobilised an incredible 173,045,325 million people during over 3,000 events in more than 120 countries...

During the first day of the meeting we focused on the review of our work during 2009.

The GCAP Europe Assembly 2009 is held in Valletta, Malta on 11-13 December 2009. Representatives from 15 national coalitions, out of 33 coalitions in Europe, are participating in the meeting.

Argentina President announces a decree launching a Universal Child Allowance for Social Security. It is estimated the allowance will reach approximately five million children and young adults.

The 2009 climate bill passed in Scotland is the first ever to state CO2 emission reductions at the level of 42% reduction of 1990 levels by 2020 and 80% reduction of 1990 levels by 2050...

State and private sectors, parliamentarians, civil society organisations or groupings including faith-based organisations, public and private institutions, as well as state and non-state media, are being called upon to assist with mobilisation of as many citizens as possible to participate in...