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Action Through Advocacy
Our advocacy agenda is driven by our evidence-based research on women and girls in the developing world. Currently, we are focusing on three policy areas:
Child Marriage | Gender and AIDS | Foreign Assistance Reform | Millennium Development Goals
Child Marriage
Child marriage is a harmful traditional practice that weds young people, almost exclusively girls to men who are usually significantly older
than their new bride.
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Gender and AIDS
Gender norms, including power inequalities, leave women more vulnerable to infection. A lack of property and inheritance rights, the acceptance of gender-based violence, and HIV - and AIDS - related stigma are just a few of the reasons women and girls are more vulnerable to HIV and AIDS.
U.S. foreign assistance policies have a major impact on women and men around the world, but have not been significantly reformed since the U.S. created its foreign assistance framework more than 40 years ago.
Millennium Development Goals
In 2000, world leaders gathered and committed to eight concrete development goals, which are known as the Millennium Development Goals. The third goal is to promote gender equality and empower women, and ICRW works with the United Nations and the U.S. government to help
us accomplish this goal.