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Gender and Development Network

@gadnetwork.bsky.social
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A network of UK-based NGOs & experts collaborating internationally to promote gender equality & the rights of women & girls in all their diversity

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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 7h
📣Panel from ABColombia @39essexchambers.bsky.social Colombia Caravana & LIMPAL Colombia: "Colombia: Justice in a New Political Context." Hear Louise Winstanley, Diana María Salcedo López & Katherine Barnes on peacebuilding, WPS & transitional justice. 🗓14 October ⏰6pm BST 📧events@abcolombia.org.uk
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
📢 @actionaiduk.bsky.social is recruiting a Head of Research & Policy to lead feminist research, policy & influencing work across women’s rights, peace & security, humanitarian action, climate & economic justice. 💷 £56,574 p.a. 🗓 7 October 🔗 www.actionaid.org.uk/jobs/fixed/h...
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
📣Upcoming event from @ABColombia and @LIMPAL: "Women, Peace and Security and Transitional Justice in Colombia." LIMPAL Director Diana María Salcedo López on accountability for conflict-related gender-based violence. 🗓 15 October ⏰ 9:30am BST 📍 Romero House, London 📧 tinyurl.com/bdd5jw6v
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🕊️ Rewatch APWLD’s webinar series “Women Resisting Militarism’s Grip Over Asia and the Pacific, Demanding Feminist Peace and Justice.” Hear women from across Asia and the Pacific on militarism’s impacts, interconnected struggles and feminist resistance. 🔗 bit.ly/FPJ_Campaign... #DefundWar
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
📣Upcoming event from IDS: "UNRWA, Gaza & the future of multilateralism with Philippe Lazzarini." In his first public event since leaving UNRWA Lazzarini reflects on his time there & the future of multilateralism. 🗓 8 October ⏰ 4pm BST 📍 IDS, University of Sussex/Online 🔗https://tinyurl.com/y5zk4au8
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
📚 New from ActionAid: Challenging the crackdown on women's rights: what feminist movements need to sustain resistance. The report calls on donors and INGOs to provide flexible, long-term funding, build trust-based partnerships and protect civic space. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/2s4d57s8
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
📣Upcoming event from Black Feminist Fund’s Politics Series: “Countering the Opposition: Lessons from African Feminists.” African feminists will share lessons from decades of resistance to anti-rights movements, repression and criminalisation. 🗓 30 September ⏰ 3pm BST 🔗https://tinyurl.com/3c6tz2zu
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🌍 New from @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social : Moving the Money: Advancing Gender-Responsive Climate Finance - a five-part learning series for advocates, activists and movement leaders working towards a more just and gender-responsive climate finance system. 🔗 tinyurl.com/395994v6
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Moving the Money: Advancing Gender-Responsive Climate Finance — WEDO
<p>A five-part learning series for advocates, activists and movement leaders to build knowledge, strengthen strategy, and take action for a more just and gender-responsive climate finance system.</p>
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
📢 The global debt crisis is a gender justice crisis. GADN & @actionaiduk.bsky.social have published a new briefing breaking down this fundamental connection, with recommendations for the UK Govt on how it should use its G20 presidency to take action. Read here ➡️ tinyurl.com/2rx2h5x9
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
📄New from @actionaiduk.bsky.social: Debt Fuels the Climate Crisis This report shows how debt repayments drain from countries on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Climate-vulnerable countries spend nearly 25 times more on debt repayment than on climate action. 🔗 tinyurl.com/239cj9z3
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Debt Fuels the Climate Crisis: How the Finance Flows
Debt is a major, but fixable, barrier to climate action. Action on debt could be one of the most impactful and achievable climate solutions available.
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🕊️ New from @globalpolicy.bsky.social : UN reforms must centre Women, Peace and Security This article argues that women’s rights, SRHR, feminist civil society and women-led organisations are not side issues - they are the infrastructure that lasting peace depends on. 🔗 tinyurl.com/3825fwm6
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UN Reforms Must Centre Women’s Peace & Security
At a time of rising conflict, shrinking development finance and sustained attack on women’s rights, UN reforms must protect the institutions and agendas that peace and security are actually built on.
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
📚 New from ALIGN: Gender norms and education - a guide on how norms shape access, learning and school experiences across contexts, and how education systems can support gender-transformative change. 🔗 tinyurl.com/mst3th59
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ALIGN Guide: Gender norms and education | Align Platform
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🌍 New from @iwda.bsky.social : Gender and Climate Justice: why the climate crisis demands systemic change. This piece explores how patriarchal, colonial and extractive systems shape unequal climate impacts, and why feminist climate justice must transform who holds power. 🔗 tinyurl.com/55jf6npa
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
📣 Upcoming feminist learning series: six online sessions on feminist knowledge, accountability, online harm, organising under pressure and collective practice. 🗓 16, 23 & 30 Sept 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/yjay3xw8
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🌊 Upcoming event from The WONDER Foundation: Ripple Effects: How Mentoring & Vocational Training Change Young Women’s Futures in Uganda A conversation on the role of mentoring & skills training in supporting young women’s education, employment & futures in Uganda. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/636jjpfs
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
📄 New from @savechildrenuk.bsky.social and @debtjustice.bsky.social : Now is the Time to Act - Six Reforms for the G20 Common Framework for Debt Treatments. The report sets out reforms needed to make debt restructuring faster, fairer and more effective. 🔗 tinyurl.com #debtjustice #cancelthedebt
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Safe women, safer societies. Women’s safety is fundamental to democratic & peaceful societies. This piece from @womankindworldwide.bsky.social reflects on the need to support women’s rights organisations & feminist movements working to end violence & build lasting change. 🔗 tinyurl.com/2uvamdha
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Safe women, safer societies - Womankind Worldwide
Globally, women in all their diversity are organising, resisting, and leading in the face of regression, adversity, shrinking funding and the blatant disregard for human rights bordering against…
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
More than 32 million internal displacements linked to conflict & violence were recorded in 2025 – the highest level documented. This @womenforwomen.bsky.social article highlights the gendered impacts of displacement & the need for women-led support beyond emergency relief. 🔗 tinyurl.com/4fennssy
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Displacement Is Reaching Record Levels | Women For Women
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🌾 New from APWLD: A Harvest of Hope: Grassroots Women Fight Back and Reclaim Food Systems. The regional report centres Indigenous women across Asia and the Pacific resisting corporate capture, land grabs, debt and climate injustice and building feminist food sovereignty 🔗 tinyurl.com/26unwk7c
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A Harvest of Hope: Reclaiming Food Systems and Building Feminist Alternatives
When the Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) were introduced as part of post-World War II reconstruction and relief efforts, food and agriculture at the hands of the rural communities became collate...
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The 2nd video in @eurodadnews.bsky.social #RealCostOfDebt series follows the women of Oriang, who are mobilising against policies that prioritise debt repayment over protecting Filipinos from climate change. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/4r7xkvca
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ActionAid UK @actionaiduk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Urgent humanitarian assistance is needed in Nepal. At least 353 people have died from a catastrophic flood that struck the country’s Rasuwa. Please donate to our Nepal Floods Appeal to help provide urgently-needed support to the people affected using this link: bit.ly/4ixQMtG
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
📊 New from @actionaiduk.bsky.social : Violence against women: the statistics around the world - a resource bringing together data that highlights the global scale of violence against women and girls. 🔗 tinyurl.com/mtrhmmjc
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Restless Development @restlessdevelopment.org · 21/08/2026
4. Apply for the C3 EmpowerHer program which is a 6-month program supporting women-led and women-benefitting climate resilience enterprises across MENA. 📌Deadline: 31st August 🔗 wegrowwithc3.com/c3-empowerhe...
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C3 EmpowerHer Program — C3 - Companies Creating Change
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
📄 @odi.global : Delivering on gender equality: the missing piece in climate and food systems policy. This briefing examines why climate and food systems policies, finance and institutions continue to exclude women and why gender equality is essential to a just transition. 🔗 tinyurl.com/mu4nx8wx
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Upcoming launch from Noor: Roots of Hate: Fascist & Fundamentalist Narratives & Actors in the Caribbean. Join Caribbean movement organisers to discuss anti-rights organising & traditions of feminist, Black, Indigenous, queer, & anti-colonial resistance. 🗓 2 Sept, 3pm BST 🔗 tinyurl.com/mv68yvn3
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
📄 New from @ids.ac.uk : Holding the Line: Defending Civic Space to Counter the Gender Backlash. This brief draws on insights from gender justice activists navigating backlash & democratic backsliding - & considers how governments & funders can better support them. 🔗 tinyurl.com/ynj3kzum
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Holding the Line: Defending Civic Space to Counter the Gender Backlash - Institute of Development Studies
Insights from gender justice researchers and activists to existing understandings of how social activists navigate narrowing civic space.
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Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 18/08/2026
Right now multinationals largely get to “pay where they say”, deciding for themselves where their profits appear on paper. It’s time to “pay where you play,” explains Alison Schultz and Bemnet Agata in a new piece for Common Dreams 👉Read here: www.commondreams.org/opinion/corp... #TaxJustice
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The Century-Old Legal Fiction Costing America $35.5 Billion a Year | Common Dreams
The international corporate tax system treats the subsidiaries of major corporations as independent businesses, allowing these companies to pay tax where they say and not where they actually play.
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
🌎@wedo-worldwide.bsky.social: Community Consent in the Extraction Economy. Feminist academic Diana Vela Almeida discusses extractivism, community consultation and consent & why meaningful participation must be central to just climate and energy transitions. 🔗 tinyurl.com/2rkucx5t #justtransition
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
What can feminist artivism teach us about resisting dominant narratives & recovering suppressed histories? South Feminist Futures’ Teach-In #34 brought together Global South feminist voices on artivism, memory, Pan-Africanism and decolonial futures. Watch it back here: tinyurl.com/mr3xa9ye
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
📣 Upcoming UN advocacy training for feminist advocates The Young Feminist Caucus, is hosting a six-week online training on UN mechanisms, countering anti-rights agendas and youth participation in global SRHR policy. 🗓 25 Aug - 8 Oct 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/yb2c7vya
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
📢 @careintuk.bsky.social UK on is recruiting a Director of Programmes, Policy and Advocacy to lead its international development, humanitarian, policy and advocacy portfolio. 📍 London (hybrid) 💼 Permanent, full-time 🗓 Deadline: 31 August 🔗 tinyurl.com/25eah87h
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
📄 @wideplus.bsky.social is recruiting a consultant to research legal barriers to migrant women’s political rights in the EU (voting, standing for office, and exclusions by migration status), as part of the WE-EMPOWER II project. 🗓 Deadline: 18 Aug 🔗 Full call & apply: wideplus.org?s=political+...
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
📄 New from WWHR: Neglected by the State, Holding onto Solidarity: Women’s Experiences of Poverty in Istanbul. Based on interviews & focus groups, the report shows how precarious work, unpaid care, housing insecurity & unequal access to health & justice shape women’s poverty. 🔗 tinyurl.com/2ybfcbmh
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
📢 WIDE+ is seeking a trainer to strengthen its intersectional feminist approach to theory of change, impact measurement and policy influence. 📍 Bucharest + online follow-up 🗓 Deadline: 18 August 🔗 tinyurl.com/5n8am8wh
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
📢 FIGO is recruiting a French‑speaking consultant / team to review the medicalisation of FGM in Francophone West & Central Africa, including research on OBGYNs’ knowledge, attitudes and practice. 🗓 Proposal deadline: 23 Aug 2026 🔗https://www.figo.org/figo-vacancies
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FIGO vacancies | Figo
Consultant services for a comprehensive review on the medicalisation of FGM in Francophone West and Central AfricaFIGO is seeking the services of a French speaking consultant, or team of consultants,…
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
New from Invisible Handcuffs: Unchaining Economics - How Eurocentrism in economics locks women and the Global South in crisis, with political economist and decolonial feminist scholar Bhumika Muchhala. 🎧 Listen here: tinyurl.com/j6f6tnu5
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
📄 New from Eurodad’s The Real Cost of Debt series: Debt & gender justice in Sri Lanka – Edna’s story, produced with APWLD and We Women Lanka. 🔗 Watch: tinyurl.com/mzy9zf9z
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The Real Cost of Debt
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
📢 FIGO is recruiting a consultant / team to evaluate its Fistula Surgery Training Initiative, assessing achievements so far and programme design to shape the next phase. 🗓 Proposal deadline: 16 Aug 2026 🔗 www.figo.org/figo-vacancies
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
📄 New from @cesr.bsky.social and @neweconomics.bsky.social: three resources on what it takes to tax extreme wealth in practice, not just on paper. 🔗 Framework + case studies: www.cesr.org/institutiona...
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
📢 @cherieblairfndn.bsky.social is recruiting a Senior Communications Officer (short term) to provide comms cover until the end of 2026, helping deliver day‑to‑day comms that support women entrepreneurs to thrive. 🗓 Deadline to apply: 11 August 🔗 tinyurl.com/9a8uc86v
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Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 03/08/2026
"By restoring the link between where profits are made and where they are taxed, the #UNtaxConvention advances a modern form of taxation with representation and carries forward one of democracy’s oldest principle." - @icrict.bsky.social Co-Chair Jayati Ghosh www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/u...
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The Case for a Pay-Where-You-Play Tax System
Jayati Ghosh urges global policymakers to back a groundbreaking UN tax treaty that would end profit shifting.
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
📄 New from @odi.global Fight for Humanity: Gender norms and protection: navigating agency, risk and backlash. The report shows how gender is increasingly weaponised in conflict, while gender-sensitive protection is being defunded just when it is needed most. 🔗 tinyurl.com/yfsh2r2s
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Gender norms and protection: navigating agency, risk and backlash
This report identifies six critical takeaways for humanitarian, protection and gender actors to strengthen the intersection of gender norms with protection action in the current hostile geopolitical c...
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European Network on Debt and Development - Eurodad @eurodadnews.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Nations are losing revenue on underpaid taxes. We’re losing out on a liveable planet.There is a chance to change that. ☝️ 👉 The 5th round of negotiations on a #UNTaxConvention will start next week. Let's ask governments to #MakePollutersPay! ✍️ Sign the @350.org petition: act.350.org/sign/treaty-...
3 words that kill the mood: UN Tax Convention
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
🕊️ New APWLD webinar series on women resisting militarism & demanding feminist peace & justice. The series will platform the voices of women in Asia and the Pacific living under militarism & strengthen calls to fund feminist peace & justice 🗓 6 Aug, 20 Aug, 3 Sept, 11 Sept 🔗 tinyurl.com/4rum835k
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
🌍 New from MENAFem: Climate Conditionality and the Burden Shift. This policy brief uses Morocco’s IMF Resilience & Sustainability Facility to show how climate‑linked lending, debt and conditionality can reproduce green colonialism. 🔗 tinyurl.com/wwzmeun2
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Climate Conditionality and the Burden-Shift: Morocco's IMF Resilience and Sustainability Facility as a Case Study in Green Colonialism - menafem movement
KEY MESSAGES The IMF’s Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF) in Morocco institutionalised the climate-justice deficit. Its original carbon-pricing measure — RM10, a regressive VAT on fossil fue...
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ActionAid UK @actionaiduk.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
UK govt has always accepted that Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are illegal under intl. law, so why does it continue to permit trade that helps normalise&sustain them? In a joint oped ActionAid UK + ActionAid Ireland argue that change is overdue. www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/why-...
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After Ireland partially bans trade with Israeli settlements, the UK must go further
The Irish move is a good first step, but much more significant action is needed to safeguard Palestinian rights and international law
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Oxfam News Team @oxfamgbnews.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
New details published today reveal which countries will bear the brunt of the UK's aid cuts, exposing the human consequences of a decision that risks leaving more people hungry, more communities without vital support, and more lives lost to preventable causes.
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CAFOD @cafod.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
A Debt Justice Law could make a real impact on the current crisis that is affecting millions of lives worldwide. However, the Government has been needlessly cautious. Our Lead Economist, Maria Finnerty, explained more to @the-independent.com bit.ly/44uGvGH
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Treasury ‘key blocker' of UK-led debt relief programmes to help developing countries
Advocacy groups tell The Independent that growing support from MPs and ministers for more ambitious UK-led debt relief is being held back by resistance from the Treasury. Nick Ferris reports
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
BRICS Feminist Watch is hosting a webinar exploring how BRICS is shaping debates on development finance, energy transitions, labour and care economies - and what this means for women and marginalised communities. 📅 22 July ⏰ 1:30–2:30pm BST 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/34xk6nff #BRICS
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Gender and Development Network @gadnetwork.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
📊 Upcoming webinar: Youth AI Survey 2026 findings @restlessdevelopment.org is hosting a webinar to share findings from the Youth AI Survey, which explores how young people in low‑income countries are using AI and what it means for their futures. 📅 21 July ⏰ 1:00pm BST 🔗https://tinyurl.com/a2jfk9jm
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