Countering Rollback Country Brief
In Kazakhstan, social tensions between the Soviet legacy and the country’s identity as an independent nation perpetuate deep-seated homophobia. Despite the decriminalisation of consensual same-sex conduct in 1998, individuals who are LGBT+ continue to face fear and abuse, leading them to...
16 April 2025
Countering Rollback Country Brief
Indonesia is experiencing significant democratic backsliding, threatening the freedoms and rights of women and of LGBT+ communities. Civil society organisations, which have long been central to advancing democracy and human rights, are facing increasing restrictions under President Prabowo...
16 April 2025
Countering Rollback Country Brief
Over the past decade, entrenched intersectional inequalities in India have been deepened by the shrinking space for civil society, the criminalisation of dissent and mass-incarceration of activists, state-sponsored violence against marginalised communities, the corporatisation of media, and the...
16 April 2025
Countering Rollback Country Brief
In recent years, Ghana has faced significant pushback against LGBTQI+ rights, marked by stricter legal restrictions and widespread societal opposition. Similarly, progress on women’s rights has been slow, with inadequate policy implementation.
16 April 2025
Countering Rollback Country Brief
Egypt has a rich history of feminist activism, but progress on LGBTQI+ rights and women’s rights ‘remains elusive, characterized by fits and starts along a non-linear trajectory’. Although Egypt’s President, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, regularly pays lip service to women’s rights, his...
16 April 2025
Countering Rollback Country Brief
The Brazilian government made significant strides in advancing rights for women and LGBTI+ people since 2000. However, in 2016, President Dilma Rousseff was impeached in a parliamentary coup and Michel Temer, her former vice-president and a centre-right politician, took over as president.
16 April 2025
Countering Rollback Country Brief
The rollback of women’s rights and of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and more (LGBT+) rights in Argentina has escalated since the election of President Javier Milei in 2023. The response to these rollbacks, however, has been limited, particularly considering Argentina’s history of mass...
16 April 2025
Report
This report details a skills development process for early career researchers associated with ten Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded research networks that focus on disability-inclusive development. The process involved both the formation of an ECR peer support group and a face-to-face...
16 April 2025
IDS Working Paper 620
The changing geo-political landscape has shifted focus from generalised normative preferences in trade policy towards more realist goals that seek to create the best advantage for a country under given circumstances. Consequently, as trade issues have become linked to polarised debates including...
11 April 2025
Research for Policy and Practice
How do we build economic systems that recognise and work within the biophysical limits of our finite planet while simultaneously reducing poverty and inequality? This has become a defining question of our time, and the global transition to clean energy is increasingly considered an important...
7 April 2025
IDS Working Paper 618
This working paper examines how communities along the Somalia–Kenya border navigate a landscape of war. Over decades of conflict – including civil war, insurgency, and counterinsurgency – local people have relied on their own means of governance and mutual support to repair the damage and...
2 April 2025
This report details the findings and recommendations associated with an inclusive participatory learning process that was facilitated with disability-inclusive, development-focused research networks funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
1 April 2025
