Development Blog
Four steps that UK must take to put women’s leadership and gender justice at the heart of their COP26 Presidency
By Francesca Rhodes 09th Oct 2020
The UK Government has a crucial opportunity to ensure women and girls are put at the heart of climate action as it hosts COP26 next year, the annual global climate change summit. But their recent decision to appoint an all-male…
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5 ways to learn from local women humanitarians who are responding to the shadow pandemic of gender-based violence
By Zainab Moallin 30th Sep 2020
On 17 March 2020, the Jordanian government introduced measures to tackle the spread of COVID-19 in Jordan. Under such measures, Jordanians were only able to leave their homes between 8.00am and 6.00pm. Every day at 6.00pm, a curfew siren would…
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Why the rush? – understanding early marriage and childbearing in rural Bangladesh
By April Houston 25th Sep 2020
Child, early, and forced marriage (CEFM) happens in nearly every country on the planet and has devastating consequences, especially for young girls. These types of marriages are often followed quickly by pregnancy, which carries huge risks, as the adolescent girls…
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Where does the real power lie in Global Britain? Is it with the men?
By Katherine Nightingale 24th Sep 2020
The UK’s integrated review of security, defence, development and foreign policy should be a real opportunity to reframe our country’s external engagement with the world in light of where we are in 2020. But as the UK government chooses a…
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Growing up in Uganda I saw directly the effects of climate change. Temperatures have risen and extreme weather events such as heatwaves, floods and droughts have increased in intensity and frequency.
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“The course of life changed overnight,” says Carrine Annette Bidzogo, from Cameroon. Carinne is one of more than 6,000 women who share their voices in CARE’s new report She Told Us So: Filling the Data Gap to Build Back Equal.…
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