“We know what works, as this report shows; now it is time for action.” Gro Harlem Brundtland

A UK parliamentary committee calls for ending violence against women and girls to be prioritised in international development efforts. The Elders have welcomed their findings, after Gro Harlem Brundtland gave evidence to the committee earlier this year.

“People can change their attitudes. We have to help them do it.”

Speaking at an inquiry of the UK International Development Committee, Gro Harlem Brundtland discusses what parliamentarians and policy-makers can do to ensure development programming tackles gender-based violence.

In a development welcomed by child marriage activists, the United States Congress has passed a bill stating that child marriage breaches fundamental human rights – and requiring the US to integrate the prevention of this harmful practice across its development programmes.

“Poverty is day-to-day violence, no less destructive than war.”

Receiving the 2011 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development, Ela Bhatt re-examines our idea of peace, arguing that equity, local economies and the empowerment of women through work are central to supporting economic freedoms, and therefore peace.