We are pleased to announce that our Annual Report 2015 is out! This year, we reflect on the important role that civil society organizations, including our counterparts, play in advancing democracy through holding governments to account.
For instance, in Canada, counterparts like Food Secure Canada are finally beginning to see years of research and advocacy reflected in government policies. In the Philippines, it has been over three years since the ‘watershed’ signing of a comprehensive reproductive health law, but our counterpart Likhaan is still working hard to secure its implementation and help impoverished women access its provisions. Over a decade of advocacy by counterparts in Peru has finally led to cases against military personnel for crimes against humanity, and the government has accepted accountability for forced sterilizations of Indigenous women in the 1990s.
Whether in Burma, Canada, Peru, or elsewhere, civil society organizations have helped create political openings for change - opportunities that we cannot afford to miss.
We hope you enjoy reading this Annual Report!
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