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Nonprofits Working on Racial Justice and Poverty See Windfalls From Rich Donors
Charities have long urged the ultrawealthy to look beyond the nation’s largest universities and medical centers in their giving — and in 2020, billionaires answered the call. In an unusual year featuring a pandemic, a recession, a racial reckoning, and deep political...
Climate change is fueling recruitment into armed groups
COVID-19 has been a boon for armed groups who have exploited the pandemic to attack enemies and grow their ranks. Now, they increasingly have another unlikely ally to promote their agenda: climate change. Research has repeatedly highlighted how climatic shifts contribute to fragility and undermine...
“What if?” Questions with answers for a paradigm shift in the Aid System
What if… the shroud of invisibility that has been forced upon the reality of socio-economic and geopolitical dynamics of the foreign Aid sector was peeled back to reveal the blinding truth? In “Invisible Man”, Ralph Ellison’s masterpiece novel about the condition of Black people...
“We are not afraid, we are resisting”: A strong message from the Director of Myanmar’s Gender Equality Network
At 8pm every evening since February 1, 2021 hundreds of thousands across Myanmar bang pots and pans to demonstrate their non-violent resistance to the military coup. This symbolic act is part of the Red Ribbon campaign, a nationwide Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM), launched by Myanmar’s medics to disrupt the normal functions of the country. “We strongly believe that if...
Now and the Future – Pandemics and Crisis: Gender Equality, Peace and Security in a COVID-19 World and Beyond
The impact of COVID-19 is deeply gendered. Gender-conflict analysis and women’s and girls’ human rights should therefore be at the centre of short- and long-term global responses and recoveries to COVID-19, future pandemics and crises. Now and the Future – Pandemics and Crisis:...
NOW IS THE TIME FOR A COLLECTIVE NEW PUSH FOR PEACE AND RECONCILIATION
On March 23rd 2020, Secretary-General António Guterres issued an urgent appeal for a global ceasefire in all corners of the world to focus together on the true fight – defeating COVID-19. He repeated the call at the start of the 75th UN...
Youth Radio in Malawi
Since 2017, Developing Radio Partners (DRP) has been supporting nine community radio stations in Malawi to provide information to youth around sexual and reproductive health. Young people are being trained as journalists to develop 30-minute youth magazine programmes dealing with issues such as teen...
Our peacebuilding impact with the People’s Postcode Lottery
Despite the impact COVID-19 poses to civil society and our collective ability to respond to conflict, we are resolute in continuing support for those communities around the world who are most affected. The continued support from People’s Postcode Lottery players gives us the...
UN-World Bank partnership in crisis settings: Increasing support to the most vulnerable during a devastating year
For countries already affected by conflict and crisis, 2020 was a devastating year. The health and socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic came on top of complex and growing threats, from the regional spillover of violent extremism to the effects of climate...
WOMEN COMMUNITY LEADERS AS AGENTS OF REVIVAL AND CHANGE: SAMTA SAKHIS OF SHEOPUR, INDIA
“There were seven families who had walked for days from Jaipur city to my village during the Lockdown. They could not survive in the city because of lockdown and so they had come back. Since they were returnee migrants, they did not...
Southeast Asia, Infected and Interrupted: Elevating Critical Voices on the State of Human Rights and Peace in the Time of COVID-19
2020 will be remembered as a year of contrasts – isolation and community, repression and protection, disorder and solidarity. Individual and collective experiences through the Covid-19 varied and so did the preparedness of the national governments and regional organizations to respond to...
Four priorities for Burundian peacebuilders in 2021
In this article, our local peacebuilding expert from Burundi* analyses the first six months of a new Presidency, and the challenges and opportunities they have brought for peace. The first six months of President Ndayishimiye’s term have been marked by important social...