IDS Live

Wednesday 21st June 2017, 10:00 to 11:15, IDS Room 221 The Centre for Rising Powers in Development welcomed Paulo Esteves, the Director of the BRICS Policy Center, and Geovana Zoccal, IDS Visiting Fellow and researcher at the BRICS Policy Center, for a discussion on 'The BRICS Effect: The Impact of South-South Cooperation in the Social Field of International Development Cooperation ' The seminar was chaired by Lidia Cabral, Research Fellow. You can find more information on the Centre for Rising Powers in Development on the IDS website (www.ids.ac.uk)

Reducing inequalities is one of the biggest development challenges of our era, and a key focus of the current IDS strategy. The 2016 World Social Science Report on this theme, which IDS has co-led with the International Social Science Council, was launched in September 2016, bringing together over 100 authors from around the world. This seminar share's the report's key findings and messages about the level of inequalities, their multiple and intersecting nature, their consequences and implications and what might be done about them - towards building pathways to a more equal world.

Professor James Ferguson from Stanford University delivers the inaugural IDS Annual Lecture titled 'Not Working: Rethinking Production and Distribution in the Jobless City'. It is a public lecture and all are welcome to attend. For more details visit: http://www.ids.ac.uk/events/ids-annual-lecture-with-james-ferguson

This seminar marks the launch of the Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice Edited Collection. Comprising 33 articles, photo essays, interviews and thought pieces with academics, activists and legal practitioners from over twenty countries in the world, the speakers will reflect on the complexity of the deceptively simple question posed by the Collection’s title: Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice: What’s Law Got to Do With It? The increasing centrality of law and legal reform to the political strategies through which sexuality and gender justice are sought requires interrogation and careful scrutiny. As the contributions in this Collection show, the law is often an imperfect tool for achieving meaningful justice. Yet it is in these important and complex conversations that the scope for future action becomes tangible. In exploring different processes by which activists and other actors have worked for change, in interrogating what we mean when we talk about ‘solidarity’, and in questioning the usefulness and place of law, a picture of a complex but vibrant field of action for sexuality and gender justice begins to emerge. From activists working with women in Assam’s tea gardens in India or youth lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender leaders in Vietnam, to lawyers fighting the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda or the criminalisation of cross-dressing in Malaysia, to academics carefully re-reading Islamic Sharia or scrutinizing the link between feminism and criminal Law in Latin America, or to researchers assessing HIV prevention programmes in South Africa, the Collection offers first-hand knowledge and experience of the complexities of gender, sexuality and social justice.

Jeremy Allouche on BBC World 8/4/2015 - Recording of IDS Research Fellow on BBC World programme talking about global water scarcity