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A new style of development reporting? Pope Francis’s love letter to the Amazon
by Séverine Deneulin Originally published on Oxfam Poverty to Power platform. On the 12th February, Pope Francis released Querida Amazonia, a poetic love letter to the Amazon region and its peoples, and from them to the whole world. The letter is one outcome...
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Come to your senses! Time to Value Care to make ecological decisions
by Aurelie Charles In the winter of the Northern hemisphere or the summer of the Southern hemisphere, if you open your window together with your senses for five minutes, there is something obvious. Flowers are blossoming in the winter, and...
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Radical help
by James Copestake Is the UK, in 2020, a developing country? If that means one that recognizes its own deep problems and has the capacity to identify and embrace radical solutions to them, then let’s hope so. Hilary Cottam’s book,...
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International Child Protection: In Need of Politics and Participation
By Neil Howard Today is International Children’s Day, when the world’s child protection institutions both remind us that children are the future and urge us to better care for them in the present. But how well are they doing their...
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Attacking the Slogans of Poverty Policy
By Geof Wood It must be helpful that this year’s economics Nobel prize (Banerjee, Duflo and Kremer) has been awarded for tackling poverty. But there also must remain a questionmark over whether experimental methods and RCT can really capture the...
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Tackling menstrual hygiene and taboos in rural Nepal
By Jennifer Thomson, Fran Amery and Melanie Channon Centre for Development Studies members Dr Melanie Channon, Dr Fran Amery and Dr Jennifer Thomson spent a week in Kathmandu, Nepal in late July as part of their GCRF funded project Menstrual...
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An Assault on Indigenous Peoples in Brazil
By Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Ricardo Verdum, Anthony Bebbington The Amazon basin is home to over 385 indigenous groups, including 71 groups living in voluntary isolation, and the world’s largest intact tropical rainforest. These two facts are not unrelated. Indeed studies...
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Feel the pain, change the narrative, then celebrate
By Ana Cecilia Dinerstein In the past two decades, indigenous peoples’ movements have become more visible and stronger in the global struggle for social justice, particularly against new economic policies based on extractivism, land grabbing and the privatisation of ejidos...
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Challenges in crafting Citizens’ Assemblies for local responses to the climate emergency
By Susan Johnson Effective campaigning by activists such as Extinction Rebellion and Youth4Climate Strikers has led a number of municipalities, town and district councils to declare climate emergencies. Among Extinction Rebellion’s demands is that of using Citizens’ Assemblies (CAs) to...
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Investigating the environmental impacts of artisanal gold mining in Sierra Leone
By Roy Maconachie,Thomas Kjeldsen and Lee Bryant In many African countries, the artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector is largely informal, generating pressing environmental and health impacts. Together with colleagues (Dr Solomon Gbanie, Kabba Bangura and Anthony Kamara) from the...
