The final report from Plan International’s 18-year study reveals that, while there has been meaningful intergenerational progress in girls’ lives, girls’ rights remain fragile and uneven.
Strikes by the USA and Israel on Iran on Saturday, and Iran’s response across the region, have plunged the Middle East into its most serious open conflict in years.
Here’s what we know so far.
If Ukrainian housing and social policy, and humanitarian response plans, do not address and further anticipate the growing needs of people, then Ukraine will face rising and ever more costly levels of homelessness. This is why Depaul Ukraine is leading the way in implementing programmes to effectively prevent and tackle homelessness.
Mark Mapemba, Self-Advocacy Coordinator at Inclusion International, on why development organisations should work with disability organisations as equal partners from the start of projects if they want them to be truly inclusive.
One year on from the gutting of USAID by the Trump administration, our Media Advisor, Emily Loynes, looks back over a period of upheaval and uncertainty for the sector, including many of Bond’s members, and a global aid landscape still coming to terms with its new reality.
Sweeping cuts to global aid have ushered in a crisis, but they are also creating the opportunity to transform how global health partnerships develop and function for the better.
Action For Humanity has released its new report, Returning To Hope: One Year After Liberation, highlighting the stark reality facing families and outlining the urgent steps required to stabilise high-return areas. The report reflects 14 years of Action For Humanity’s work alongside Syrian communities, one of the largest locally embedded humanitarian efforts in the country.
As today marks international Human Rights Day, it is a moment to reflect on the commitments made to uphold the rights and dignity of all people. Among some of the most urgent of these injustices is Female genital mutilation, a practice that affects 230 million girls and women worldwide.
It’s been a year of difficult conversations, shrinking resources, and moments where the gap between what we say and stand for and what we’re able to deliver has felt unbearably wide. But it’s also been a year that has clarified, for Bond’s Mustafa Al-Soufi at least, what this work is really about—and what it demands of us.
