Moving beyond the rhetorical: Investing in gender equality to achieve the right to health
After decades of work to tackle gender disparities in healthcare, gender remains a significant factor in the poor health of millions around the globe.
Women account for the majority of the world’s poor, and being a poor woman carries serious health..
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A blind spot in the migration debate: who’s being left out in the cold?
Tomorrow is International Migrants Day, a day to recognise the enormous role that migrant workers play in the global economy and to share experiences to ensure their continued protection. For illegal or forced migrants, however, this day is pretty insignificant since international discussions on the topic tend to exclude them, focusing instead on the rights of legal migrants...
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A warm welcome to ‘Agriculture for Development’
Agriculture has been in and out of fashion over the last half century. Since the turn of the Century, however, its stock has once again been rising. This is reflected most notably in the publishing of the World Development Report 2008, entitled ‘Agriculture for Development’, which confirms the importance of agriculture to development and the policy agenda ODI, and many others, have been developing for the past decade...
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Gender Fatigue: What can we do to overcome it?
There is a growing concern in academic and practitioner circles alike that 12 years after the lofty optimism of the 1995 UN Beijing Conference on Women we have reached a state of ‘gender fatigue’. The energy of global women’s movements appears to be waning;..
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