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A human rights advocacy center working at the intersection of legal innovation and design justice. We welcome your engagement with ICAAD on Facebook!

08/16/2026

Multiple streams of information compete for our attention every day. With alarming headlines, differing opinions, and voices speaking all at once, it can be tempting to tune it all out rather than engage with what’s actually going on. Even the most committed advocates get tired and burnt out.

Over two days of half-day sessions, we help you cut through the noise and unpack different approaches to complex problems. Through thoughtful questioning, we invite curiosity by drawing from perspectives across worldviews and areas of knowledge.

What would it feel like to sit with complexity without losing hope?

Find out in Futures: Shaping Change. Enrollments are ongoing and scholarships are available. Click here to join: https://humanrightsedu.icaad.ngo/futures

08/14/2026

It is hard to know where to focus in our fast-paced, changing world. Rapidly developing technology, space governance, and climate displacement. It can feel like the problems people are facing are evolving faster than we can keep up with.

In Futures: Shaping Change, participants learn to ask better questions before jumping to answers, and to be right-sized in their approach to the problems in front of them. They come away with the confidence to step into new conversations and the judgment to know how they ought to show up in unfamiliar territory.

Join a global network of advocates and change makers working through hard questions together. Enrollments are open now and scholarships are still available. Click here to join: https://humanrightsedu.icaad.ngo/futures

08/12/2026

A coalition wanted to stop a harmful policy decision. They analysed who held power and targeted their efforts where the pressure points actually were.

That's the kind of strategic thinking that we teach in the Advocacy Essentials Certificate Program. Across four world-class courses, participants work through real cases like this one, sharpening their ability to read power and leverage human rights mechanisms with precision. They leave with a range of practical tools and clarity on how to use them in the landscape they’re in.

Download the free case study and learn more about our approach to powerful movements: https://1c81dd86.sibforms.com/serve/MUIFAAVdn-p-vto64aSw70G6vYnYa7pnhEl0a7TjQI64xRj5KeP858CcMTEEbiuOGPu0TfKCkniz4oejfR93ofnqga3hN6yCshttOONK0VBGoT5xcZnwxd8tDVhiJVpZ2Jqk2nB0-q3GLvvLM3arpD43H2sqwOdOp5j61cpQuI3vbTPQoExenXX3LyUTZFX-ykDV9-SJqI9F9Pru

07/26/2026

Sometimes the right moment unfolds in front of us. Sometimes we have to make the moment happen.

In Tools: Advocacy Strategy, we explore how powerful movements are built on a series of strategic choices. The people behind them understand how change actually happens: not by tackling everything at once, but recognizing where opportunities are ripe and moving on them with precision. You’ll come away from this course with tools to wield – wherever and whenever – the issue demands it.

Let this moment be one of many that you seize on the road to the future you’re fighting for.

Join us before enrollment closes on July 30. The course fee is $250 USD, with scholarship opportunities still available. Follow the link for more info and to enroll: https://humanrightsedu.icaad.ngo/tools

07/14/2026

In this course, we ask participants to bring an issue they care about to the table. It's not a hypothetical but the advocacy work already in front of them.

In just two days of half-day sessions, participants are equipped with tools to see their issue with more clarity and to navigate its unique context with agility. Alumni have told us the course directly shaped what came next: stopping harmful legislation, innovating community education programs, reforming unjust laws, and inspiring strategic media campaigns.

What would you bring to the table?

Save your spot before enrollment closes on July 30. The course costs $250 USD, and scholarships are available. Learn more and enroll here: https://humanrightsedu.icaad.ngo/tools

07/09/2026

Ready to move from awareness to strategic action?

Join the next course in the Advocacy Essentials Certificate program, Tools: Advocacy Strategy. In two days of half-day sessions, you'll learn to read where power sits and sharpen the tools to shift it, all while keeping those most affected at the center of your vision and your strategy.

Real case studies will teach you as much as your co-participants will. Our network of alumni is made up of 118 participants from 32 countries, bringing with them a rich variety of experience from public health, the social sciences, law, education, the arts, NGO work, and more. We'd love to hear your voice in the mix.

Enrollment closes on July 30. The course costs $250 USD, and scholarships are available. Find more info and enroll here: https://humanrightsedu.icaad.ngo/tools

07/08/2026

You already know what needs to change. This course will help you figure out your next move to make it happen.

Tools: Advocacy Strategy is open for enrollment. Over two days of half-day sessions, you'll build a personalised toolkit grounded in tested frameworks, learn to read the openings in front of you, and act with intention – alongside advocates in the same fight from different corners of the world.

Join us in one of our streams:

Atlantic: Aug 3 (Mon) & Aug 4 (Tues), 1–5pm EDT (6–10pm CET / UTC 5–9pm)
Pacific: Aug 6 (Thurs) & Aug 7 (Fri), 1–5pm FJT (11am–3pm AEST / UTC 1–5am)

Learn more here: https://humanrightsedu.icaad.ngo/tools

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

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