Calls to urgently invest in maternal healthcare in Afghanistan, as it is one of the most dangerous places in the world to ...

To conclude this series and give a flavour of some of the themes explored across the previous nine blogs, this post presents a series of five cases offering in-depth reflections on how livelihoods are ...

The Institute of Development Studies is pleased to announce the official launch of the new HeatNexus website — a central ...

On 28 March 2025, a 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit central Myanmar, a country going through a civil war and an already ...

The global transition towards the circular economy is often presented in an idealised and apolitical way, as the ...

In this blog, IDS student Riya Behl, (who studies MA Poverty & Development ) uses photographs of restroom signs to explore ...

Frequently, while proposing solutions for India’s vast skilling gap, we tend to miss the forest for the trees. Pradhan Mantri ...

In this blog, IDS student Karan Shinghal ( MSc Climate Change, Development & Policy class of 24-25) explores the metrics ...

Feminist and LGBT+ movements in the Philippines face mounting challenges that are deeply rooted in cultural, religious, and political dynamics. Machismo culture ...

Over the past decade, entrenched intersectional inequalities in India have been deepened by the shrinking space for civil society, the criminalisation of dissent and mass-incarceration of activists, ...

South Africa’s Constitution offers protection, and formal recognition as equal citizens, to women and to LGBTQI+ people. It also positions South Africa as an important regional place of refuge for ...

Deq (Arabic: دەق) or xal (Kurdish: خاڵ) are the Arabic and Kurdish words for tattoo respectively. Traditional Deq (tattoo) or ...