International Center for Advocates Against Discrimination - ICAAD

06/16/2026

Canvas of Change: Stories of climate, displacement & resilience is on now at UN Headquarters in New York, open Monday–Friday 9–5 through July 10.

The exhibition brings together paintings, indigenous adornment, animation, and digital work from ICAAD's Artivist-in-Residence program, exploring environmental degradation and the climate crisis, discrimination and belonging, colonialism, and migration, and how art can hold space for accountability and collective healing.

On June 19 at 12 PM, don't miss the opportunity to join award-winning artist Vishavjit Singh for an artist talk and tour of the exhibition.

To visit the exhibit, you'll need to register in advance on the UN's official platform at least 24 hours before your visit. When you arrive, you can collect your visitor badge at the security office across the street from the main entrance before proceeding through building security.

You can find the full details and registration instructions here: icaad.ngo/un-art-exhibit.

06/14/2026

There are still a few spots available in our two-day course, Frames: Human Rights for Impact.

Human rights is a language used all over the place. Knowing it and knowing how to leverage it for advocacy are two different things.

In Frames: Human Rights for Impact, we develop agility with the language, frameworks, and mechanisms of human rights to bring us closer to justice on the issues we care about. You'll leave with a practical Advocacy Roadmap, grounded in strategy, built for an issue you're already fighting for.

Enrollment closes on 18 June 2026, so reserve your spot today. If the scholarship link is still open, scholarships are still available. Learn more here: https://humanrightsedu.icaad.ngo/frames

06/12/2026

For the first time ever, the works of ICAAD's artivists are on display at the UN Headquarters in New York. If you're in New York, this is your chance to see them.

Canvas of Change: Stories of Climate, Displacement & Resilience is open Monday–Friday 9–5 through July 10. The exhibit features paintings, indigenous adornment, animation, and digital work from our Artivist-in-Residence program exploring the climate crisis, colonialism, migration, and belonging.

To visit, register in advance on the UN's official platform at least 24 hours before your visit. When you arrive, collect your visitor badge at the security office across the street from the main entrance before proceeding through building security.

Full details: icaad.ngo/un-art-exhibit

06/12/2026

Visit the Canvas of Change exhibition today at the UN Headquarters in New York to meet two of the artists behind it.

On June 12 at 4pm, you can join Namita Kulkarni and Vishavjit Singh for a rare artist talk. Namita's "Colonialism & the Climate Crisis" includes paintings that will push your thinking in ways only art can, and you can hear the story behind Vishavjit's award-winning film, American Sikh.

Make sure you're registered in advance at the UN's official platform. Full details: icaad.ngo/un-art-exhibit

06/11/2026

You've heard about human rights. You've been in rooms where they've been invoked. Yet, knowing the language and knowing how to leverage human rights for advocacy are two different things.

In Frames: Human Rights for Impact, we practice being agile with the language, frameworks, and mechanisms of human rights to bring us closer to justice on the issues we care about.

Join us for the two-day online course and leave with a practical Advocacy Roadmap, grounded in strategy, built for an issue you care about.

Be a part of our growing alumni community representing 32 countries and counting. Enrollment closes 18 June 2026. The course costs $250 USD, and scholarships are available. Learn more here: https://humanrightsedu.icaad.ngo/frames

06/09/2026

Human rights is a language used all over the place, yet often we’re still missing clarity about exactly what we want and who’s accountable to deliver it.

Frames: Human Rights for Impact is a two-day course that teaches you how to read it, apply it to your issue, and build an Advocacy Roadmap grounded in strategy as opposed to wishful thinking.

Join the growing alumni network of over 118 participants from 32 countries and counting. Beyond the course, you’ll become a part of a community of practice grounded in international solidarity.

Enrollment closes 18 June 2026. The course costs $250 USD, and scholarships are available. Learn more here: https://humanrightsedu.icaad.ngo/frames

06/09/2026

We’re thrilled to see the Mining and Community Power Toolkit continuing to resource civil society to engage with the extractive industry in the Solomon Islands. Power to our partners Development Services Exchange, ANHRA, and our beloved CBO from Choiseul. Thank you to UK in Solomon Islands for hosting this important workshop and the collaboration from UNDP Solomon Islands.

Empowering communities across the Solomon Islands to influence decision makers about mining and protect what matters most to them.

06/09/2026

Are you leveraging human rights law in your work? Human rights is a language, a framework, and the grounding for regional and international institutions. It’s not always the same as justice defined by our communities, but it’s a tool we can and should be agile with to bring us closer to the futures we’re building.

Join the next course in the Advocacy Essentials Certificate program, Frames: Human Rights for Impact. In this two-day course, you'll learn how to read international human rights frameworks, connect them to the issues you're fighting for, and build an Advocacy Roadmap that's grounded in power analysis.

Past participants have come from all over the world, including activists, artists, NGO workers, lawyers, and academics. What they all share is a desire to sharpen their tools. Let’s get to work.

Enrollment closes 18 June 2026. The course costs $250 USD, and scholarships are available. Learn more here: https://humanrightsedu.icaad.ngo/frames

06/05/2026

ICAAD’s Artivists in Residence have surfaced lost histories, drawn out the roots of our shared struggles, held space for collective healing, and explained the edges of our belonging and identities to help us all better see each other.

From June 5th to July 10th, the stories our Artivists fought for decades to have heard will be displayed inside the United Nations Headquarters, and we would love for you to visit them.

Canvas of Change is on view at the Main Lobby Gallery, UN Headquarters, New York, from June 5 through July 10, Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM. Entry to the exhibit and the main lobby is free.

To visit, you must register in advance on the UN's official platform. Register here: https://indico.un.org/event/1014617/

The UN requires registration at least 24 hours before your visit. When you arrive, collect your visitor badge at the security office across the street from the main entrance before proceeding through building security. We hope to see you there!

06/03/2026

Throwback to our site visits with Vanuatu Young Women For Change. In April, we spent the week with amazing human rights defenders, uncovering and documenting gaps and charting a path forward.

Read more about what we uncovered at our site visits and what the group had to say here: https://icaad.ngo/2026/05/18/workshop-puts-spotlight-on-vanuatus-human-rights-gaps/

A day out with Human Rights Defenders doing some site visits here in Port Vila