In September 2015, the 70th United Nations General Assembly will approve the final set of sustainable development goals that beginning 2016 will guide the efforts of governments, international organizations, nongovernment organizations and others on some of the largest collective challenges including reducing poverty and disease, and protecting natural resources and environment.
When studying in Jordan last fall, I was stunned by the silence around sexual violence experienced by women in Syrian refugee camps, writes Hannah Deegan.
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Human rights groups, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights groups, should be able to register and carry out their work in Kenya. The National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission’s application to register was denied in 2013 because the Non-Governmental Organizations Coordination Board deemed the group’s name “unacceptable.” In a new Human Rights Watch video, Kenyan lawyers describe how these restrictions keep them from serving some of Kenya’s most vulnerable populations.
Today Daily Development talks to Aidan McQuade, Director of Anti-Slavery International. Founded in 1839, Anti-Slavery International is marking 175 years of campaigning against slavery in all its forms. But why is there still a need for an anti-slavery organization in the modern world and what is being done about it?
In recent commentaries on the bleak state of global freedom, analysts have used a series of labels to describe the trajectory of democracy: “stagnation,” “erosion,” “recession,” and even “decline” for those who view the trends with alarm. One label that has not been applied to current conditions is “reversal.” This is worth noting.
A new paper jointly released by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and the Education for All Global Monitoring Report puts a spotlight on the global teacher shortage while identifying those countries facing the greatest needs.
Being able to make our own decisions about our health, body and sexual life is a basic human right, but one that is still denied to far too many people worldwide. Today Daily Development talks to Jessie Macneil-Brown, from Amnesty International, about its campaign, My Body My Rights, which aims to stop the criminalization of sexuality and reproduction by governments and third parties.