20 March 2019
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20 March 2019
20 March 2019
19 March 2019
Opinion
Reflections on South-South co-operation on trade and investment ahead of BAPA40
This week marks the Second High-level United Nation Conference on South-South Cooperation, forty years since the initial UN conference on the topic in Buenos Aires. Since then, we have made progress in understanding South-South cooperation and the role of emerging countries in development aid...
18 March 2019
15 March 2019
15 March 2019
Opinion
International Women’s Day: A Double-Edged Sword
To begin with, I appreciate everyone who has contributed to the struggle of realising so far, the achievements towards Gender Equality, on International Women’s Day. All those who have written, spoken and supported financially and morally. Balancing unpaid care work Women are mothers of...
13 March 2019
Opinion
Nepal’s radical decentralisation: of surface winds and deep currents
Rarely is it possible to observe such drastic change in a political system as Nepal is currently undergoing. After decades of constitutional monarchy, ruling elites agreed to the principle of federalism in 2008, at the end of the so-called people’s war, and not without another uprising in the...
12 March 2019
Opinion
Celebrating Gender Transformative Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Vietnam
Within the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector, gender issues are frequently reduced to the roles and experiences of women and within that often with a narrow focus on menstrual hygiene management. Although these issues are very important, many other central gender equality issues are...
8 March 2019
Opinion
The need for a fresh approach to the HIV crisis
HIV/AIDS is not just a global health issue but feeds into gender equality, human rights, economic empowerment and education. Viewing the SDGs as a platform from which the barriers to ending AIDS can be overcome by linking them to these wider issues is critical. This was the topic of...
7 March 2019
Opinion
Could better accountability put a stop to India and Pakistan’s war-mongering?
The recent escalation of tensions between India and Pakistan highlights weak state-citizen relations in both countries that are actually very similar in nature. Better accountability relations between states and citizens could discourage both of these nuclear-armed countries from their...
6 March 2019