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Save the Children Germany, together with jugendschutz.net, has developed a guideline on the sensitive handling of children’s photos and videos in institutions and organisations. It is based on extensive discussions with specialists from child and youth protection organisations, as well as the police. Find out more from Britt Kalla.
If you read the headlines in the western media over the weekend, you’d be forgiven for thinking COP30 was meant to be about getting an agreement on fossil fuels – but that wasn’t even on the agenda for COP30 – so what was COP30 all about?
As we mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, let’s remember that ending violence against women begins with ensuring safety wherever women seek opportunity, and that includes microfinance.
Supporting community-led organisations is one of the best ways to ensure aid is money well spent. As aid budgets shrink, if communities know what they need, why aren’t we trusting them to lead?
The question isn’t whether AI-generated imagery is inherently problematic. It’s about who controls the tools, whose perspectives shape the outputs, and whether we’re willing to invest in community capacity to produce representations at a scale that can genuinely challenge entrenched biases.
Today, Tuesday 18th November, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has declared that the Chancellor should slash the UK aid budget by…
The issues raised in a recent Bond blog are important and its recommendations sound. But not all international volunteering is voluntourism – and failing to recognise this risks a valuable aspect of development work.
In a time of shrinking resources and increasing crises, UNICEF UK describes how it takes proven approaches and embeds them into public systems, scaling solutions through policy and finance to achieve lasting, systemic change.
Today, Tuesday 11 November, the UK government has announced its pledge of £850 million to the Global Fund to fight…
