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A world of self-reliant refugees? Reflections on World Refugee Day
By Katharina Lenner Self-reliance has become an evermore important element of international responses to refugee crises in recent years. It is, for example, core to the UN Global Compact for Refugees, which came into force late last year after years...
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The Cairo Policy Lab: Design Thinking Meets Middle East Policymaking
By Bethany Shockley When the Middle East and North Africa Social Policy Network (MENASP) (convened by Dr. Rana Jawad) received funding from the Carnegie Corporation in New York to engage with policymakers in the Middle East, “Policy Labs” were among...
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Addressing the tobacco epidemic as a sustainable development priority: the need for cross-disciplinary thinking
By Britta K. Matthes and Mateusz Zatoński In May 2017, just months before the end of her second term as Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Margaret Chan spoke about championing the WHO’s mission to fight tobacco use as...
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Documenting Menstrual Restrictions in Nepal for World Menstrual Hygiene Day
By Melanie Channon In 2014 the UN Human Rights Council (finally) formally acknowledged the link between menstruation and gender equality. Until recently, research around menstruation, where it existed, was bio-medically focused, ignoring the myriad of related social and cultural issues....
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Challenging Industry Claims: Does Corporate-Led Mining in the African Periphery Really Provide Higher Wages to Local Workers?
By Ben Radley Since 1980, the World Bank has loaned more than $1 billion to low-income country (LIC) governments across Africa to privatise, liberalise and deregulate their mining sectors. Supported by the most recent commodity super-cycle, this resulted in the...
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