…Nations Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women committee urged Kenya to either implement existing legislation prohibiting the practice of female genital mutilation or adopt legislation,…
Milanovic on inequality (continued): implications for politics, alliances and migration
…moot point because, for all we wish, we are still not a global community. Aspirations, tastes , institutional rules and the sense of community is still determined by the nation-state….
Africa’s newest oil pipeline. When Two Elephants fight, the people get trampled
…Minister Januari Makamba criticised the EU, each arguing that the European Union is meddling in the domestic affairs of two sovereign nations after the EU parliament’s motion condemning the EACOP. …
Shakespeare, the Bible, Einstein et al on Doing Development Differently
…do not walk in your ways. Early PDIA seminar Now appoint us a king to judge us [and rule over us] like all the other nations.” But their demand displeased…
How has global multi-dimensional poverty changed over the first ten years of measurement?
…Poverty Index (MPI), produced by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), releases figures and analysis annually on the scale and details…
How can the international community help put women at the heart of bringing peace to South Sudan?
Oxfam’s Shaheen Chughtai reports back from a recent conversation at the UN Once in a while, the shroud of coded, diplomatic language that envelops discussions at the United Nations Security…
Is food the new oil? Fertiliser wars and Brazil as food superpower
…evenly spread. A handful of nations – led by Canada, Russia, Belarus and Israel – command the bulk of the reserves. Eight companies control more than 80 per cent of…
Reshaping Economic Geography – the latest World Development Report
…should be applied depends on the complexity of the development challenge: Complexity of challenge (Geographic scale) Challenge Institutions Infrastructure Interventions One dimensional (L) Areas with only incipient urbanisation (N) Nations…
What needs to happen at the G20 summit on Saturday
…the climate, food and energy crises. The credit crisis has exposed systemic failures of financial markets. Global leaders should take immediate action to develop a new international regulatory institution. This…
Have Children’s Rights Campaigners lost their Courage?
…certain rights for the children and labour for their universal recognition.’ – Eglantyne Jebb In 1924 Jebb got the fledgling League of Nations to adopt the Declaration of the Rights of…
Doing the Doughnut at the G20?
…The development path that these nations must now pursue has never taken before. Copying the degenerative industrial path of today’s high-income countries (Group C), would most likely collapse Earth’s life-supporting…
Billionaires made more in the 24 months of the pandemic than they did in 23 years. Oxfam on Davos
…and now the food and energy crisis, have led to increases in extreme poverty for the first time in decades. The gap between rich nations and developing nations is growing…