In our 2022-23 masters students' blog series, Xiaoxue Weng explores gender equality in Asia. Due to the deep-rooted patriarchal ideology and the preference for sons over daughters in most part of Asia ...

In the last few years, there has been growing talk amongst development actors and agencies about a ‘rights-based approach’ to development. Yet what exactly this consists of remains unclear. For some, ...

Over the last several years, a growing number of development and human rights organisations have begun to critically reflect on the impact of their work. With inequality and poverty deepening in many ...

The rights based approach to development is increasingly popular, but more rights-based money isn’t the answer to the world’s ills. Rights-based practitioners will have to do a better job of ...

“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights” says the first sentence of Article 1 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The objective of German development cooperation ...

Mohammad Nawazuddin has many years of experience across different fields of the development and education sector. He currently works with Mariwala Health Initiative, and was earlier with the School ...

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Community development is enjoying something of a renaissance at the moment as New Labour tries to square expanding the market while supporting the most vulnerable in our society, writes Keith Popple.

THE last few years have seen a slow expansion of social assistance programmes in Pakistan. Among mainstream political parties, the PPP claims to embrace such programmes as a policy measure. In 2008, ...