This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The newly appointed executive director of the United Nations Population Fund has described a situation of injustice when it comes to women and girls’ access to reproductive health and rights,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The development community should seek to bridge the divide between relief work in developed and developing countries, the CEO of Direct Relief has said — and dropping the jargon that can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A panel consisting of new and seasoned advocates, pushing for a variety of social changes, explained that despite a changing world bombarded with negative imagery, change was possible through advocacy.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The United Nations’ current policy on sexual harassment and its internal processes to investigate such allegations “is not enough” by itself to combat the problem, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. You would think a question like ‘is inequality going up or down?’ would be relatively easy to answer, but sadly it is not. The first thing to say is that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The U.K. shadow secretary of state for international development, Kate Osamor, called on aid organizations to think beyond “whistleblowing” policies and put in place measures that are “fit for purpose”…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “Philanthropy in India,” a working paper by Caroline Hartnell published by PSJP in association with WINGS, Alliance and the Centre for Social Impact and Philanthropy at Ashoka University, confirms this, bringing to light a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In our increasingly interconnected world, countries must work harder than ever to combat threats to global public health – from the emergence of new pathogens, to the spread of fast-moving…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The new Women, Peace, and Security Index released at the United Nations highlights huge regional and global disparities in women’s well-being, as well as a continuing lack of gender-disaggregated data limiting…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Clearly, Islamist terrorism thrives and proliferates in nations whose leaders turn a blind eye toward, approve, or even support, radical Islamist groups like Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, Al-Shabaab, and of course ISIS.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Aid groups working in Myanmar’s crisis-hit Rakhine State are scrambling on how to respond if the government pushes forward with controversial plans to create new internment camps for displaced Rohingya,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At the end of September, the European Union launched its new European Fund for Sustainable Development, an instrument worth several billion euros to support investment in Africa and in the countries around…