📄 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...
Gender and Development Network
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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
📢 @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
"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...
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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📄 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
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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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-...
🕊️ 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
🌍 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
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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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-...
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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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.
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 https://bit.ly/44uGvGH
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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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
📊 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
📣 Global launch: Peoples’ Global Campaign against the IMF World Bank, marking 82 years since Bretton Woods and eight decades of harmful neoliberal policies. 📅 22 July 2026 ⏰11am BST 💻 Register: bit.ly/PGCGlobalLau...
💭 To celebrate diverse forms of feminist resistance, We Are Feminist Leaders is seeking submissions for a global, open-access Anthology of Resistance. 🔗Read the full guidance and submit your work here: tinyurl.com/38e687tc #FeministResistance
🩺 Upcoming FIGO-WHO webinar on updated contraception guidelines Clinicians will be introduced to the Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use and Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use 🗓 Thursday 16 July 2026 ⏰ 3pm BST 🔗 More info and registration: tinyurl.com/m4u62bpe
Applying WHO Contraceptive Guidelines in practice: What every clinician should know | Figo
In 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched two updated evidence-based normative contraception guidelines, referred to as their "family planning cornerstones." The Medical Eligibility Criter...
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New report from APWLD: “The Perils of Neoliberal Capitalism: Women's Lives Under Debt in Asia” The report examines how IFIs and debt “solutions” designed by Global North governments and corporations reinforce neocolonial financial structures 🔗 apwld.org/resources/pu...
The World Bank Group's private sector arm, IFC, is currently reviewing its globally influential standards. This is a critical moment to call for stronger protections for people and the planet. Learn about IFC's impact and join the campaign: ifc-exposed.org #IFCexposed
Catch up on the brilliant 2026 programme of the Gender IFI Summer School on @brettonwoodsproject.org website. All recordings are available now!
Our 2026 Gender IFI Summer School wrapped up after 6️⃣ online sessions where participants discussed how international financial institutions impact women’s rights Did you miss any of the sessions? Check our website to access the recordings 👇 www.brettonwoodsproject.org/update/2026-...
🔎New reports from The Circle examine 17 global due diligence laws and find many fail to protect workers. Women are often most affected, facing low pay, insecure work, harassment, and barriers to justice. 🔗 tinyurl.com/y8wek657
📚Noor’s “Know Your Enemy 2026” (5-week political education space) is open to organisers now! Participants must apply by 12 July. 🔗Please share with your networks and click here to find out more: tinyurl.com/2cwrefzb
📣FIGO is recruiting a part-time Programme Manager (English/French) to lead global health projects, including its Advocating for Safe Abortion programme in Francophone West Africa. SRHR and MEL experience desirable. 🗓 14 July 🔗 tinyurl.com/39wvmcsa
📄New report from FIGO highlights the impact of the LDI:REACH programme on maternal and newborn health - finding that the programme strengthened health systems and expanded life-saving maternal and newborn care through leadership-focused approaches. 🔗 tinyurl.com/3xuujfc7
Join the Institute for Journalism and Social Change and @noor.network for the global launch of “Big Tech Cash for the Backlash,” a new report tracing how tech philanthropy funds both human rights and anti-rights groups. 🗓16 July, 2pm BST 🔗Register: tinyurl.com/3x2vz4u7
🎓Two sessions remain in the Gender IFI Summer School! Join to unpack how the IFIs impact women’s rights, and economic justice, and explore feminist strategies for resistance. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/5x5kn2cy
📣Volunteer opportunity with GADN: Membership Communications Volunteers Are you passionate about women’s rights and gender equality, and want comms/admin experience in a feminist, anti‑racist network? 📎Learn more and apply by 13 July: tinyurl.com/4m5syym9
🎥 Upcoming parliamentary documentary screening on UK aid cuts, maternal health and women’s rights - “A Matter of Life or Death: Giving Birth in Sierra Leone”. The screening will be followed by a discussion on the impact of UK aid cuts in Sierra Leone. 🗓 2 July 🔗 Register: luma.com/n0794exa
🚨 Bioweapons in the deep sea? Yes. We must expose the military dimensions of ocean research. Naval powers are using marine biodiversity for military innovation, from potent toxins & engineered microbes to scaly-foot snails inspiring military armour. dawnfeminist.org/projects/blu... 🧵 1/3
Have you applied to Noor’s Know Your Enemy School 2026? Applications close on July 6th! docs.google.com/forms/d/1PRB...
Noor's Popular Education School—Know Your Enemy
Know Your Enemy: Noor's 2026 Popular Education School Are you an organizer actively confronting far-right projects in the Global South? We invite you to apply to Noor’s Know Your Enemy Popular Educati...
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(1/2): Applications are now open for Noor’s Popular Education School - #KnowYourEnemy 2026. A 5-week political formation space for organisers, activists & thinkers confronting the far right in real time - not just resisting, but analysing and building collective power.
📢 FORWARD is recruiting a Communications and Events Officer to support its mission to end violence against women and girls and amplify the voices of African women and girls. 🗓 Deadline: 9 July 🔗 Details and how to apply: www.forwarduk.org.uk/about-us/jobs/
The 2026 G7 Leaders’ Summit again concluded with limited references to women & girls. In the face of increasing global backlash, more has to be done to protect & advance gender equality, including as part of the upcoming UK G20 & G7 presidencies. GADN’s full response below ️⬇️ bit.ly/4aaf2NG
Response to the 2026 G7 Leaders' Summit — Gender and Development Network
June 2026 Response: The 2026 G7 Leaders’ Summit again concluded with statements on a range of subjects in the absence of a Leaders’ Communiqué, with limited references to women and girls. In the...
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