23 May 2013
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Anna Ratcliff
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Blog channel: GROW
In recent months food scandals have hit the headlines across the globe with horsemeat being passed off as beef in Europe and rat dressed up as lamb in China. And these are probably just the tip of...
22 May 2013
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Keith McManus
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Blog channel: General
Shocking new statistics released by Oxfam this week have shown that governments are letting people hide at least $18.5 trillion in offshore tax havens. Yes, you read that right: not $18.5 million, or...
17 May 2013
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Irit Tamir
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Blog channel: GROW
While gender equality is enshrined in the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights, in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and in legislation in most countries,...
16 May 2013
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Guppi Bola
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Blog channel: Health and Education For All
In the world of development, money answers many questions. If we’re interested in finding out how far we have come in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) or in what direction we should...
12 May 2013
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Shawna Wakefield
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Blog channel: Gender Justice
This mother’s day, instead of valorizing moms with well-intended, but often artificial appreciation for the vast amounts of unpaid labor that women do every day, I would rather we all take a hard...
8 May 2013
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Winnie Byanyima
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Blog channel: General
Several African countries are amongst today’s fastest growing economies in the world, boosted in many instances by new discoveries of oil, natural gas and strategic mineral reserves. Extreme poverty...
7 May 2013
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Ed Pomfret
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Blog channel: Conflict & Emergencies
Last week the UN revealed for the first time that more than a quarter of a million people died in Somalia over 18 months from October 2010-April 2012. These figures are shockingly high especially...
2 May 2013
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Rachel Wilshaw
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Blog channel: GROW
The tragic collapse of a garment factory in Bangladesh has put a spotlight on the poor pay and working conditions endured by millions of people who make our clothes or grow our food.
1 May 2013
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Irit Tamir
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Blog channel: GROW
For many people around the world the first of May is International Workers’ Day, a chance to celebrate the role of workers and labourers in our society. So we thought this would be a good time to...
30 April 2013
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Ed Cairns
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Blog channel: Conflict & Emergencies
There are promises and promises, but we get nothing, Fatima, a refugee from Syria, told one of my colleagues in Lebanon last week. Her counterparts in Jordan where I was visiting tell a very similar...
