This International Women's Day (8 March) falls after a year in which we have seen the continuation of gender backlash forces around the world. Women's reproductive rights are being increasingly targeted, online gender based violence is multiplying in diverse contexts, and in many settings...
10 March 2023
International Women's Day is an important day for raising awareness of the challenges for achieving gender equality and to recognise the accomplishments of gender activists around the world. To unpack key debates around child marriage law and its implementation in Pakistan, Mahnaz Shujrah, a...
8 March 2023
In Chile, a country more than 4,000 km long, few things are constant. Its people, climate, and landscape present an ever-changing array of differences. But there is one thing that you can find everywhere you look: the Andes. This massive mountain range crosses our country and, to some extent,...
6 March 2023
Last month in the UK, the Princess of Wales launched a campaign labelled ‘Shaping Us’ to focus on the importance of early childhood. She is right to focus on the early years. It’s a critical period in which we lay down the foundations for the rest of our lives. Good nutrition in this...
1 March 2023
At the end of last year, I had a great week at PLAAS (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies) at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town discussing with a great cohort of post-grad students working on agrarian change issues in the region. The question of how ‘livelihoods...
28 February 2023
Since researching the experiences of gender discrimination against women in poverty who belong to religious minorities, many fellow feminists have turned their back on me. The inherent assumption among some of my feminist critics is that by defending women who are targeted on account of their...
27 February 2023
As part of our series from Latin America, Cecilia Turin explores how traditional herders continue their alpaca farming in parts of the Andes, and what the future might hold, with many challenges and some signs of hope. This piece draws on work carried out in collaboration with Pablo Manzano....
24 February 2023
This year, Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) is thrilled to join the Countering Backlash programme. WOUGNET’s emphasis will be to identify and explore the key drivers of gender backlash, particularly looking at the relationship between online and offline contributors to gender backlash in the...
23 February 2023
Over the past few months, we have been carrying out extensive research in Mozambique as part of the Inequality and governance in unstable democracies – the mediating role of trust project. The research aims to understand the long-term impacts of cotton concessions —a forced labour system...
23 February 2023
Any keen observer of social media spaces ahead of Nigeria’s upcoming presidential election cannot be in any doubt about the power that young people have to dictate the direction of national political discourse. Thanks to social media savvy young people, what started as a two-horse race is now...
23 February 2023
Sidonie East graduated in 2022, winning both Best Overall Performance and also the Best Overall Dissertation. She has also been nominated for the DSA Masters Dissertation Prize 2023. She shares her journey so far, and where she hopes her career will take her next. Before coming to IDS I worked...
22 February 2023
Greta Semplici explores how pastoralists in parts of Mexico are maintaining traditional mobile ways of life, despite changes to their environment and wider society. Today, they are also being enlisted as allies in conservation because of their close relationships with wildlife and the...
14 February 2023
