Emily Daniel Women make up half of the world’s population. Given that two-thirds of the world’s illiterate adults are women, could one of the most potent drivers of development progress across the world lie in empowering women through education? Linda Scott, an expert on women’s economic development and professor at the University of Oxford, draws … Continue reading Empowering Women Through Education: A Cornerstone for Sustainable Development
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Jed Michael, Global Affairs Officer Under the assumption that reducing international poverty is an admirable policy goal worth some cost, defining and measuring – together operationalising – poverty becomes very important. But in discussions of reducing poverty, how we are actually measuring it is talked about relatively rarely. This begs the question of how sure … Continue reading The Perils of Poverty Measurement: How do we Know that we are Making Progress?
Jed Michael, Global Affairs Officer Palestinians inspect the damage following an Israeli airstrike on the El-Remal area in Gaza City on October 9, 2023. Creator: Naaman Omar, Copyright: Creative Commons Even before the Israeli tightening of the blockade of Gaza following the violent HAMAS incursion of October 7th, which has left the enclave without power … Continue reading Opinion Piece: How Can the World Best Support Development in Persistent Conflict Zones? Lessons from the Gaza Strip
Jed Michael, Global Affairs Officer Bedouins in a camp in South Hebron Hills. Palestine 2011.Creator: Libertinus , Copyright: Creative Commons Over the last 30 years, conceptual development in the fields of security and development have brought them much closer together, illuminating a ‘Security-Development Nexus’. On the one hand, there has been greater acknowledgement of the importance of ‘Human … Continue reading Opinion Piece: Incorporating Stateless Peoples and Repressed Minorities into the Security-Development Nexus
Migration occupies a particularly prominent position amongst the major issues which faced the world in 2022. Whereas, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021 was marked by a welcome resurgence in international migration, 2022 has arguably highlighted, in various ways, an urgent need to revamp our immigration systems and policies.
The Republic of Mali, home to more than 20 million people, is a landlocked country in West Africa. Since the outbreak of the Mali War in 2012, the country has been embroiled in military and political conflict, including two coups d’état in the past two years. Conflict began in the country following the Tuareg Rebellion … Continue reading Mali: Conflict, Political Instability and Future Conflict
Is Democracy under threat? In this episode, Esther, our Europe Events Officer, speaks with Niheer Dasandi, a senior lecturer in Politics and Development at Birmingham University and author of ‘Is Democracy Failing?’ Throughout the interview, they talk about the challenges that contemporary democracy is facing as well as recent trends. There are discussions about populism, … Continue reading Is Democracy under threat? With Niheer Dasandi
Photo by Shelby Gibson On January 20th, 2003, the Twenty-Ninth Session of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights adopted General Comment no. 15: The Right to Water. It reaffirmed and clarified the standards for water rights for individuals all across the world. However, as of November 1, 2021, 71 Canadian First Nations communities … Continue reading Water: Canada’s Missing Human Right
Photo by Damir Sagolj The United States has long been considered the hegemonic power of the world yet China’s increase in military expenditure, global integration, and global financial lending means that China is now threatening their position. Recent years have seen the increase in tensions between the two sides with China rapidly expanding its influence … Continue reading China versus the U.S. – Two superpowers and the fight for influence in Latin America and the Caribbean
Over the past few years, Asian Americans have suffered an increase in hate crimes, particularly with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. How can we reconcile this with the stereotype of Asian Americans being the ‘model minority’? The model minority myth is a racial stereotype imposed upon Asian Americans, often depicting them as a successful … Continue reading The dark side of the model minority myth for Asian Americans
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