Ahead of Women Deliver 2019, history was made. On June 2nd, we introduced the Equality Fund to the world – a collaboration between philanthropists, investors, and government designed by women, for women to get unprecedented amounts of money into the hands of women and girls at the grassroots. At the YWCA in Vancouver, The Honourable[…]
(JOINT PRESS RELEASE, June 17, 2019) With human rights defenders increasingly under attack around the world, civil society organizations today welcomed the Government of Canada’s new guidelines aimed at strengthening its approach to ensuring the safety and security of these courageous activists as part of its feminist foreign policy. Human rights defenders are often criminalized, targeted[…]
The MATCH International Women’s Fund will support 27 new partners in 2019, focusing on feminist groups in Francophone Africa and in the Middle East and North Africa. (OTTAWA – February 4, 2019) Today, as International Development Week is kicked off, The MATCH International Women’s Fund (The MATCH Fund) announced the 21 new partner organizations that it[…]
Le Fonds MATCH international pour la femme donnera son soutien à 27 nouveaux partenaires en 2019, avec un accent sur les groupes féministes en Afrique francophone, au Moyen-Orient et en Afrique du Nord. (OTTAWA – 4 février 2019) Aujourd’hui, dans le cadre du lancement de la Semaine du développement international, Le Fonds MATCH international pour[…]
UPDATE: In June 2019, the House of Commons Subcommittee on International Human Rights (of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development) released their full report: Raising Her Voice: Confronting the Unique Challenges Facing Women Human Rights Defenders. The MATCH Fund and Nobel Women’s Initiative pushed the Subcommittee to investigate how Canada could better support[…]
Les femmes défenseures des droits humains (FDDH), ainsi que les défenseurs des droits LGBTIQ se battent tous les jours pour les droits des femmes et des filles. Des militantes courageuses, telles que Anielle Franco du Brésil et Jay, qui oeuvre avec notre partenaire FEMA en Ouganda. La soeur d’Anielle, Marielle Franco, était une ardente défenseure de jeunes,[…]
Rosemary Brown a un jour qualifié le Fonds MATCH de «miracle révolutionnaire ». À titre de directrice générale du Fonds MATCH de 1989 à 1991, et présidente du conseil au début des années 2000, elle était émerveillée par l’impact qu’un si petit groupe pouvait avoir sur autant de vies. Presque 20 ans plus tard, le[…]
Rosemary Brown once described The MATCH Fund as a “revolutionary miracle.” As the Executive Director of The MATCH Fund from 1989-91 and Board Chair in the early 2000s, she marvelled at how such a small group could transform the lives of so many. Nearly 20 years later, The MATCH Fund is still making Rosemary proud.[…]
En fin 2018, un rapport (de la Commission nationale pour l’égalité des sexes, rien de moins!) affirmait que les garçonsdu Kenya avaient été délaissés. “Il y a eu trop d’accent sur l’éducation de la jeune fille,” le rapport concluait, suscitant un débat national : est-ce que les filles du Kenya sont excessivement autonomisées? Akili Dada,[…]
Late in 2018, a report (from Kenya’s National Gender and Equality Commission, no less!) claimed that Kenyan boys were being left behind. “There has been an over-emphasis on the education of the girl-child,” the report stated, sparking a national debate: Are girls in Kenya being over-empowered? The MATCH Fund’s Kenyan partner, Akili Dada, had something[…]