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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 ...

The adoption of Rights-based Approaches (RBAs) by the UN and its agencies, many bilateral development agencies and international development non-governmental organisations (NGOs) has allowed human ...

Rights are shaped through actual struggles informed by people’s own understandings of to what they are justly entitled. Looking for the meaning of rights from the perspective of those claiming them ...

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 ...

The human rights movement, the democracy-promotion community, and development donors have common goals, but they have not always seen themselves as allies. It is quite possible that the three ...

“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 ...

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