As backlash against gender rights grows across the world, so does the resistance against it. Feminist and queer movements, organisations and activists are engaged in intense and difficult processes of developing and implementing strategies to counter this backlash. The Solidarity Network is a...
Sustaining Power: Women's struggles against contemporary backlash in South Asia (SuPWR) is a five-year ESRC-funded project that examines when, how, and why women's power struggles in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan succeed in retaining power and sustaining their gains against...
The ARISE project aims to catalyse change in approaches to enhancing accountability and improving the health and wellbeing of poor, marginalised people living in informal urban settlements in Bangladesh, India, Kenya and Sierra Leone. Around the world, the number of people living in cities is...
IDS is working with Health Systems Global (HSG) to develop communications, share messages and engage with its members and the global community.
International Women's Day is an important day for raising awareness of the challenges for achieving gender equality and to recognise the accomplishments of gender activists around the world. To unpack key debates around child marriage law and its implementation in Pakistan, Mahnaz Shujrah, a...
8 March 2023
Covid-19 has changed the world as we know it. In particular, the pandemic has significantly affected the lives of people with disabilities, with many facing additional barriers in access to services, increased isolation and increased risks of poor health and social outcomes. To strengthen...
31 January 2023
In Bangladesh and India, informal healthcare providers (IHPs) have long been part of the countries’ health systems. However, formal recognition of their existence is sensitive, partly due to resistance and concern from professional health bodies. Research by Future Health Systems (FHS)...
10 October 2018
In public health research, the focus has traditionally been on descriptive and analytic epidemiological research (“what”, “why”, “where,” and “who”). Less attention has been given, particularly in low-income countries, to “how” interventions do or do not work in the “real...
10 October 2018
In Bangladesh and India, informal healthcare providers (IHPs) have long been part of the countries’health systems. However, formal recognition of their existence is sensitive, partly due to resistanceand concern from professional health bodies. Research by Future Health Systems (FHS) partners...
20 June 2018
IDS Policy Briefing 110
The world is becoming increasingly urbanised. Over one third of urban dwellers now reside in low-income urban settlements, where living conditions are often inadequate and there exist multiple barriers to access to health services for women and girls.
15 February 2016
From the 10 to 21 March, people from all over the world will gather in New York for the sixty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69), which marks the thirtieth anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. While progress on rights has...
11 March 2025
In the face of escalating attacks on women’s rights globally, what is it that feminists can learn from women’s struggles in South Asia? Watch now https://youtu.be/gvHTCnnZpaQ 2024 was a big year politically for Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan, with women’s movements in some...
Join IDS and SuPWR for the launch of the Sustaining Power: Contemporary Women’s Struggles in South Asia exhibition, showcasing art and imagery from women’s rights movements in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan. Women in South Asia have struggled for many decades to improve their...
To mark International Women’s Day 2024, colleagues from the Sustaining Power: Women’s struggles against contemporary backlash in South Asia (SuPWR) project, of which IDS is a partner, share their essential feminist reads. Ranging from meditations and essay collections to academic...
6 March 2024