Innovative community projects provide more dignity for people in food need than traditional foodbanks, and provide a choice of locally sourced healthy food, new research suggests. The city-based projects, created to fill the gap left by insufficient state support, are often run...
22 May 2025
The number of conflicts disrupting or halting the mining of critical minerals, like copper and lithium, is putting the energy transition required to combat climate change at risk, researchers warn in a new study. The new research from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) shows that...
25 March 2025
Initiatives led by grassroots organisations and community projects in Brighton & Hove are filling in the gaps left by failing welfare and food systems, according to new research released today. The new research, from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), found that initiatives which...
17 March 2025
In response to the Prime Minister’s announcement to cut the Official Development Assistance (ODA) from 0.5 percent to 0.3 percent of GNI by 2027 to fund the increased defence budget, Professor Peter Taylor, Director, Institute of Development Studies, said: “This is a devastating blow to...
25 February 2025
Experts are raising the alarm that women’s and LGBTQI+ rights that are increasingly being eroded across Europe, as they warn of a ‘rising onslaught’ of repression. The warning and call for progressive movements to build solidarities and overcome differences to help protect gender rights...
21 November 2024
Experts are raising the alarm that movements advocating for women’s rights in Pakistan, Bangladesh and India, are facing a ‘rising onslaught’ of repression. The warning and call for progressive movements to build solidarities and overcome differences to help protect gains made in gender...
21 November 2024
Experts are raising the alarm that women’s and LGBTQI+ rights that are increasingly being eroded across Africa, as they warn of a ‘rising onslaught’ of repression. The warning, and call for progressive movements to build solidarities and overcome differences to help protect gender rights...
21 November 2024
Calls for Bangladesh’s interim government to protect poorest children seeking to support their families through dangerous work. First of its kind study designed by and conducted with children in worst forms of child labour. 35% of children in slum neighbourhood around small leather...
20 September 2024
Children are being driven into sexual exploitation and the worst forms of child labour in Nepal’s adult entertainment sector (AES), due to pressure to support their families financially, new research reveals. The study shows that although there were some cases of child trafficking, the...
14 August 2024
Two experts in infectious disease have been selected to be Policy Fellows as part of a wider Japan-UK collaboration to tackle the growing crisis of antimicrobial resistance. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to global health, with overuse of drugs, including antibiotics,...
9 July 2024
In an unprecedented year for elections in Africa, the increasing use of digital disinformation poses a rising threat to democracy across the continent, researchers warn today. New evidence shows that politicians have been undertaking increasingly sophisticated digital disinformation...
26 April 2024
Philanthropists must step up their funding for gender and women’s rights activists and organisations, against a well-organised anti-gender movement rolling back rights of women and LGBTQ+ people globally, worth $1bn in the USA alone and growing across Europe, warns a new report. The new...
12 March 2024
