World Day Against Child Labour – Rising Numbers of Child Labourers Requires Social Protection for All

Child Labour and its Detrimental Impact Child labour refers to the deprivation of rights associated with a child and young person’s development. Working at a young age denies a child…

The UN’s Decade of Environmental Restoration – An example in Pakistan’s 10 Billion Tree Tsunami Project

By Zoe Dean

Human Development and its Environmental Cost Human Development has been achieved at a detrimental cost to the natural world. Currently, it is reported that humans are using as much as…

Celebrating Africa Day – Kenya Makes History by Appointing First Female Chief Justice

By Zoe Dean

Africa Day, celebrated on 25th May every year, honours the founding of Africa’s first union of countries in 1963. Today the Charter of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) has…

The UK’s ‘Cut Once, Cut Deep’ Approach to Reducing Aid Funding

By Zoe Dean

The Economic Forecast that guided Cuts to the UKs Aid Spending Multiple charities, NGO’s and International Organisations including the UN have criticised the UK government’s decision to implement sweeping cuts…

India responds with help of International Nations to its Covid-19 Crisis

By Zoe Dean

India Current Second Wave India is currently facing a monumental battle against its second wave of Covid-19 infections. Beginning in mid-March, the number of Covid cases rose rapidly and is…

Can COVAX ensure equitable access to the covid-19 vaccine for developing countries?

By Zoe Dean

A Pandemic knows no borders: the danger of Vaccine Nationalism At the beginning of 2020, most of the world fought to control the rise of Covid-19 infections. It quickly became…

Does Samia Suluhu Hassan have the potential to unite a polarised Tanzania and lead the country towards improved development?

By Zoe Dean

The contradictory legacy of John Magufuli For two weeks at the beginning of March 2021, Tanzania’s president John Magufuli went missing amid rumours that he was suffering from Covid-19, which…

The challenges and developments within Africa – a conversation with Red Sea Executive Search’s African Researcher Linda Walsh.

By Zoe Dean

What are the developments in the international development sector within Africa that you find particularly exciting? ‘The government of Kenya are proposing that Children do not have to repeat an…

30×30, the HAC for Nature and People Initiative begins to address the need to recognise Indigenous Knowledge.

By Zoe Dean

Reduced Biodiversity – ‘as big a threat to humans as climate change’ The natural world is under attack, its diverse species continue to disappear at a rate not seen before…

The International Community Responds to the Myanmar Coup and Myanmar’s Community-based Organisations adapt

By Zoe Dean

The Myanmar Coup 2021 and increased Human Rights Abuses In the early hours of Monday 1st February 2021, the Myanmar military seized power detaining Aung San Suu Kyi and other…