Africa
Report
The state of artistic freedom 2024
An unprecedented crisis in freedom of expression is manifesting all over the world. This year's report provides an overview of current challenges to creative freedom and freedom of speech in particular as a result of armed conflict, political unrest and digital repression.
Report
Building digital resilience: girls and young women demand a safer digital future
This report makes the case that safety in online spaces is a human right as well as a gender equality issue and that ensuring the online safety of children and young people, in all their diversity, is a shared responsibility between governments, policy makers, civil society institutions, parents, guardians, and the wider community at local...
Journal article
Elevated blood pressure among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Other authors
Yih Kai Chan, Dike B. Ojji
The findings in this study suggest that approximately one in ten adolescents have elevated blood pressure across sub-Saharan Africa. Accordingly, there is an urgent need to improve preventive heart-health programs in the region.
Report
Pathways to equitable food systems
Other authors
Nicholas Nisbett, Sophie Robinson
The report is aimed at policy-makers, international non-governmental organisations, social movements, grass-roots organisations, activists and think tanks, who are working to render food systems more equitable. The report proposes a focus on power imbalances and identifies ways in which marginalised social groups can be placed at the centre of food system transformation.
Report
Against the odds: action for empowerment and accountability in challenging contexts
This research largely took a ‘citizen-eye’ view to the question of how authority is understood, and how citizens, especially marginalised groups, make claims, express grievances, seek to have their voices heard and hold authorities to account.