DfID Articles

The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights was born out of the aftermath of the second world war. For years, work on human rights focused primarily on civil and political rights while development policy gave priority to economic and social rights....

Speaking at the London Stock Exchange last week, international development secretary Justine Greening talked of the ‘radical journey’ she wanted to take her department and the broader development agenda on. As we expect from a Tory cabinet minister’s speech, it was...

As we mark today the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, it is worth reminding the world community about its utmost responsibilities to protect impoverished people from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The DRC has been plagued by instability for...

You’d expect both left and right to agree that the best way for people to escape poverty – in the global south as much as in Britain – is to work their way out. Rhetorically, that’s certainly the case. But look at the detail of what the coalition-led DFID is doing,...