Posts by Dave
Punching Down: the UK Government’s response to irregular migration
Suella Braverman, the UK Home Secretary, has recently doubled down on her efforts to turn away small boats carrying people desperately attempting to make the notoriously difficult and dangerous crossing of the English Channel, and to remove those refugees and asylum-seekers who have been able to reach the UK by ‘irregular’ (undocumented, highly risky) means.…
Read MoreCombatting Malnutrition: India’s Silent Emergency
By Neelmani Singh, Sanjeev Kumar & Anand Kumar Malnourishment has long been silent emergency in India. Evidence suggests that there are several factors, working independently or combined, that are responsible for poor nutritional status among the women in India. These include lack of access to adequate and nutritious food, inadequate hygiene, infections such…
Read MoreTürkiye, Syria & the Kurds post-Quake: Is Discrimination an added Disaster?
by Hasan Karrdilo (SOAS) On the night of 6 February, southern and central regions of Türkiye and Syria’s north-western regions were hit by two devastating earthquakes. The first struck with a record-breaking magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale, while the second registered 7.5. Over 50,000 people were reported killed. In excess of 200,000 buildings…
Read MoreCOP27 will be remembered as a failure – here’s what went wrong
Mark Maslin, UCL; Priti Parikh, UCL; Richard Taylor, UCL, and Simon Chin-Yee, UCL Billed as “Africa’s COP”, the 27th UN climate change summit (otherwise known as COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, was expected to promote climate justice, as this is the continent most affected but least responsible for the climate crisis. Negotiations for a fund…
Read MoreWhen Words Are Weapons
The fate of those seeking sanctuary from poverty, conflict and injustice – including climate injustice – is all too often informed by constructions of ‘race’, influenced variously by either judicious or disingenuous use of language. Witness how loaded the term ‘migrants’ has become – liberally applied in ‘fortress’ Europe to justify prejudice, oppression and violence.…
Read MoreCoral Warriors: On a Mission to Save Mumbai’s Marine Life
Meet Vidhi Bubna, Founder of Coral Warriors, India’s first scuba diving project. We met Scuba Diver and City, University of London student Vidhi recently. We were impressed and inspired to learn about the work she is doing to prevent further damage to India’s coastline. She says, “Corals are to marine ecosystems what plants…
Read MoreDeaf Children and Mental Health – The challenges and how Deaf Child Worldwide are tackling them.
Deaf children and mental health – The challenges and how we’re tackling them By Joanna Clark, Director, Deaf Child Worldwide In the wake of World Mental Health Day, I’d like to talk about a project we’ve started with our partners in South Asia, to provide better emotional wellbeing support to deaf children and young…
Read MoreGlobal experts discuss action to tackle stunting and reach Zero Hunger
Text: João Pedro Costa Photo: João Pedro Costa. Graphic Facilitator Eleanor Beer live drew the second Action Against Stunting Hub. The second Action Against Stunting Day on 8 September 2022 attracted leading experts and policy-makers within stunting and nutrition. After defining the key priorities in 2021, the second Action Against Stunting Day explored how…
Read MoreLost in Lockdown: The impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on ‘deaf education’ in Low and Middle-Income countries
By Joanna Clark, Director of Deaf Child Worldwide Of the few deaf children who make it to school, many drop out early. Very few make it to secondary school, let alone further education. The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected deaf pupils who were already in precarious situations. What needs to change now to give them…
Read MoreShould Sustainability Sciences be ‘Decolonised’?
Lyla Mehta, Principal Investigator, TAPESTRY project* The 18th-century German forester, Hans Carl von Carlowitz coined the term ‘sustainability’ in an environmental context to prescribe how forests should be managed on a long-term basis. This early emphasis on conserving economically valuable natural resources remained a key part of the environmental policies that emerged during imperial and colonial…
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