🚺 The development of women’s rights is a barometer for free societies. 💥 Autocracies are on the rise worldwide, but women are not silent anywhere. 🤝 We dedicated this month's focus section to them. Have a look 👇 🇩🇪: 🇬🇧:

📆 Save the dates! We've compiled a list of some of the most relevant international conferences on global development-related topics. Have a look 👇

🏆 How successful a country is in economic terms is commonly measured with GDP. But this type of measurement has downsides. Here's why 👉

🚹 🚺 Men should be allies in the feminist fight against the patriarchy, says Stephen Mutie. Why, and how? He explains it in D+C 👇

"What's in it for us?" is a question that's being asked a lot in Germany recently when it comes to development cooperation. Mark Furness from @IDOS_research gives three answers 👇

🚺 The state of women's rights in any given country is an indicator for the freedom of that society.

😊 Who's happiest? And why? Latest findings of the World Happiness Report 👇

RT @bbcworldservice: What do plans to resume drilling for oil in Ogoniland mean for people there? 🎧 One story from Africa, for Africa with…

🌱 The food industry and industrial-scale agriculture rely on only a handful of globally grown species. 📉 This imbalance reduces humanity’s food security, as Hildegard Lingnau and Stefan Schmitz point out. Read the full piece here:

🚺 Despite the achievements, there is still much work to be done to attain true gender equality in Algeria. Women in leadership roles continue to face substantial challenges. 👇

RT @devex: Rwanda is studying the survivors of its recent Marburg outbreak to better understand how they survived.

RT @dwnews: Taliban-ruled Afghanistan lacks the resources to provide its people with basic public services. Experts warn a permanent cut of…

🎓 ✏️ Education can help people escape poverty. But many people around the world lack access to quality education. We have collected our most important contributions on this topic in our overview on education 👉

❌ Sexually available and unmarriageable: These are existing, harmful clichés about female students in Algeria. 🇩🇿 Khadidja Kelalech on where they come from and how they are holding women back 👇

🚺 Patriarchy comes with certain gender roles and expectations, which are often difficult to shake off. For women, one of the central ones is to be rather quiet and agreeable.

❗ Buzz words can be a little misleading or inaccurate sometimes. Here's why that's the case for “energy transition” 👇

RT @CarbonBrief: Interactive: How the world is already adapting to climate change | @AyeshaTandon @Josh_Gabbatiss 🎨 @KerryAnnCleaver Tom P…

💰 There's value in some waste. "I can now pay for my first-born child to go to university,” says one entrepreneur from the lucrative business. 👇

"Many women suffer in silence because they fear stigmatisation or losing their jobs if they talk about it,” says Said Wamba. He's talking about gender-based violence in the workplace. In Tanzania, there are several initiatives to help counter it. 👇

🚺 💥 A global femicide report finds: Statistically speaking, it is not the male stranger posing the most danger to women. "Of the 85,000 women killed by men in 2023, 60% died at the hands of a partner or family member," writes the Guardian 👉