One year after the first Ebola cases started to surface in Guinea, the World Heath Organization is publishing this series of 14 papers that take an in-depth look at West Africa’s first epidemic of Ebola virus disease.
Food security is a human right and is a fundamental ask for poverty eradication and sustainable development. As the world prepares for the post-2015 scenario by drawing up a set of sustainable development goals, it is crucial to have food security and agriculture to be adequately placed in the discussions around these goals.
When Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kailash Satyarthi handed over a petition against child slavery to UN General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon, he did so with the support of half a million signatures and the backing of Education International.
For Gael Turine, a Brussels-based photographer who conducted a series of photography workshops for young Haitians organized by the Fondation Connaissance et Liberté, the Open Society foundation in Haiti, the Grand Rue in Haiti provided the perfect place for his students to hone their skills.
Free the Slaves investigates the extent of slavery in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's mining industry in this hard-hitting and informative video.
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Today Daily Development talks to Mayra Gomez, Co-Director of the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR). Founded in 2010, the GI-ESCR seeks to advance the realization of economic, social and cultural rights throughout the world, tackling the endemic problem of global poverty through a human rights lens. We discuss in particular the work of the GI-ESCR to promote and protect women’s land and property rights in Africa.
There have been a number of discussions and consultations on the “localization” of the post-2015 agenda. As implied by the very concept of localizing, what it means will ultimately depend on the context and the specific characteristics of countries’ decentralization systems. A new note by the Overseas Development Institute discusses different possible meanings of this term and their practical implications for how local governments could use a new set of development goals.