Your support can empower 50 global CDWD youth leaders
From South Asia to Sub-Saharan Africa, young leaders carry the weight of inherited status. Here's how we're building a generation of advocates.
Stories of impact
Reports from the ground, the UN, and the conversations that connect them.
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The ECOSOC President just congratulated us. Will you help us continue?
At HLPF 2025, the President of the UN ECOSOC publicly stood in solidarity with communities living under descent-based discrimination. Here's what that recognition means - and where it must lead.
Why the Global Forum on Discrimination on Work and Descent matters
Over 270 million people face discrimination not for what they've done, but for who they were born as.
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Severe gaps in health, education and gender equality across The Gambia, Mauritania, Niger, Cameroon and Nigeria.
UN Special Rapporteur Dr Surya Deva cites CDWD in his Right to Development report
A landmark moment for the global movement - the Special Rapporteur recognises descent-based discrimination as a development issue.
Towards an Informal Working Group on the rights of CDWD
The path to formal UN recognition - and what an informal working group could unlock for the movement.
The Universal Periodic Review: a catalyst for Roma rights in Albania
How the UPR mechanism became a platform for Roma communities to push for systemic reform.
Youth on the frontline: redefining leadership from the margins
Why CDWD youth are not future leaders - they are leaders now.
Born unequal: the silent power of descent in shaping our lives
How descent quietly shapes life chances - and how we make it visible.