Women, motherhood, and science in Colombia
by Efforts to reverse trends of disengagement with studies, normalize motherhood in universities, and counteract gender disparities. Four stories, like cardinal points, to better understand the …
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India’s Covid Vaccination Capabilities: Major Supplier of Vaccines in Global South but Gaps in Own Strategies
by India hosts the world’s biggest vaccine manufacturing units in the world and is expected to play a major role in providing vaccines to the Global …
Decent work and economic growth / Gender equality / News / Peace, justice and strong institutions / Social Sciences
Land ownership rights: A barrier to gender equality and economic empowerment of Ugandan women
Gender and economic inequalities are still very pervasive within countries across the world. Despite the considerable progress made on promoting women’s economic empowerment and reducing …
Applied Sciences / Good health and well-being / Life on land / News / Responsible consumption and production / Social Sciences
Tracking environmental crimes in Ghana
Ghana is the leading producer of minerals, especially gold in Africa. But more than 35% of the country’s minerals are extracted by small-scale miners, most …
Older people in Denmark were mostly worried about other people getting infected with COVID-19
During the pandemic and the ensuing restrictions, the general picture in Denmark has been that older people have been much more worried about other people …
COVID-19’s extra torture on Kenya’s elderly
In the thick trees on the outskirts of Kisumu City in Kenya, a hut is as isolated as the 76-year-old woman who owns and lives …
“Up here, it is as if the pandemic did not exist”
Seeing the capital from up here, in the hills high above the rooftops, our perspective changes. The distance is small, but mentally, this is another …
Critical Voices in Science, Arts and Media are coming together
Today, Friday December 10th, a paper about ”Critical Voices – UNESCO’s instruments in Defence of Freedom of Expression of Artists, Journalists and Scientific Researchers” has been published …
Maria Eriksson-Baaz: ”We should reformulate development studies as a field that mainly analyses the vast development industry and really work at globalizing the other disciplines”
by DDRN.dk earlier covered the intervention of Professor Maria Eriksson-Baaz, Uppsala University, Sweden, during the roundtable ”Development Thinking in Flux – Continuity and/or Change” at the …
The Neo-Colonialism in Development Studies
Despite the Global South being the breeding ground for research in development studies, there is a marked underrepresentation of researchers from the region in the …