by Allana Boateng – BA Politics & International Relations, University of Sussex The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD’s) exist in 149 countries and affect over 1 billion people. The WHO has made significant progress in…
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“Stop Abortion” in Poland: Is the Polish Legislation to Become Even More Restrictive?
This post is by Katarzyna Wazynska-Finck is a PhD candidate in the Law Department, European University Institute. The legal regulation of access to termination of pregnancy currently in force in Poland is one of the most repressive in Europe. Abortion care is…
16 Days of Activism: Bringing gender-based violence in education into focus
The 25th of November is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Historically the date marks the day on which the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo ordered three political activists – the Mirabal sisters – to be assassinated…
The Brighton Global Health and Development Community: A Case of Timing
The breadth of Global Health in its most conceptual sense, is a spectrum that encompasses every facet of human existence. Amidst the capricious complexities that come with a twenty-first century globalised world, it is our state of health and wellbeing…
Liberia, Ebola and the Pitfalls of State-building
by Priska Dibiasi The Sussex Africa Centre and the Institute of Development Studies recently invited Dr Robtel Neajai Pailey from the University of Oxford to discuss her latest research at a joint event. She presented her findings at the event…