News overview

A new UN protocol aims to make aid more accountable. Thea Hilhorst argues that the proposal will simply create a 'tick-box' approach to accountability.

'Structures of oppression' by Tamara Soukotta discusses the continued racism against West Papuans and East Timorese in Indonesia.

Charmaine Ramos discusses how Philippines’ president, Rodrigo Duterte, perpetuates the neoliberal strategies associated with decades of development failures.

Bloggpost about the collaps of the agricultural sector in the Philippines.

Bloggpost about societal gender inequality in Korea and the attempts to close that gap.

Thea Hilhorst, professor of Humanitarian Studies and  Susanne Janssen, professor of sociology of media and culture appointed as member of KNAW.

After a year of online teaching, ISS resumes in-person classroom teaching.

ISS working paper 678

A blogpost about how pandemics reveal problems like inequality that are the Achilles heel of society based on insights from the book Pandemic Economics.

A blogpost about how the commodification of land affects youth participating in farming in Ghana.