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
New report reveals Ghana’s democratic ranking, one of the highest in Africa, is at risk of decline as the government increases its possession of surveillance technologies, coinciding with the arrest of journalists and civil society campaigners. The report published by the Institute of...
27 September 2023
A new report on the supply of surveillance technology to countries across Africa calls for Malawi to put in place robust data protection and legislation to protect the digital rights of all citizens. The research, published by the Institute of Development Studies and the African Digital...
27 September 2023
Governments in Nigeria, Ghana, Morocco, Malawi, and Zambia are collectively spending at least $1bn a year on digital surveillance technology contracts with companies in the US, UK, China, EU and Israel, new research reveals today. The research, published by the Institute of Development...
27 September 2023
Nigeria has been revealed as Africa’s largest customer of surveillance technology contracts, spending hundreds of millions of dollars annually, and at least US$2.7bn on known contracts between 2013–2022. This is the equivalent of $12 per Nigerian citizen. The new research, published...
27 September 2023
The UK Foreign Secretary visits China today, Wednesday 30 August, for high-level talks with the Chinese government. In response, Jing Gu, Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies and Director, IDS China Centre, said: “This is a critically important trip for the UK Government and...
29 August 2023
New research shows that out of 120 active mineral mine projects in Argentina and Chile, over 50 percent (61) are in conflict. In Chile, the majority of mineral mines are in conflict, with indigenous peoples in many cases, who are left to risk their wellbeing to protest against the lithium and...
9 August 2023
A new open access book “Digital Citizenship in Africa: Technologies of Agency and Repression” explores African citizens’ use of tech tools to freely participate in social, economic, and political life despite a wider context of growing repression and digital authoritarianism. This is the...
27 July 2023
Future pandemic responses to restrict new infections need to be better balanced with allowing people to earn a living, say researchers, in a new report on the impacts of Covid-19. Published by the Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (CPAN), based at the Institute of Development Studies, the report...
11 July 2023
The return of high levels of hunger in Brazil, after a period in which it had been greatly reduced, reflects the history of normalisation of hunger in the country, according to a new report published today by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). It highlights that half the population...
27 June 2023
Experts have pointed to the deep reliance on food banks and an ‘inadequate welfare system’ in the UK as they warn against allowing hunger to become the new normal for millions of people. Their warning and recommendations for creating fairer access to healthy, affordable food are published...
27 June 2023
Despite the right to food being enshrined in the country’s constitution, food insecurity remains persistent in South Africa and experts warn against accepting hunger as the norm, in a new report published today by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). Nearly half the population (45 per...
27 June 2023
