This quick guide aims to support NGOs in understanding and engaging with the ongoing IASC Humanitarian Reset.

The decolonisation of development studies and knowledge in general has become a very popular conversation. However, the idea of decolonisation is rather ill-defined in academia, with a variety of arguably unrelated initiatives being pursued in the interest of decolonising development studies. This paper defines what decolonising development studies entails by arguing that development studies is characterized by eurocentrism. Specifically, I argue that the idea of development in development studies is that of the development of capitalism, which is seen to have developed in Europe due to largely intrinsic European characteristics related to resource availability, labour productivity, and institutions. Therefore, much of the discourse of development is based on this implicit idea that the periphery can and should follow this path of progress. However, this is a path of development is mythical, and ignores the role played by colonialism and the slave trade, and the transformation of social relations. And since the Eurocentric understanding of the development of capitalism in the capitalist centre is the epistemological norm for development, the periphery can only be understood as aberrant from the ideal developmental norm. This compromises our understanding of the process of development. This article argues that decolonising development studies means dismantling the dominance of Eurocentric theories, methodologies, and approaches in development studies and to challenge the structural exclusions in development studies that supports and legitimizes Eurocentrism, and in turn, imperialism.

The 2025 edition of the State of the world’s nursing provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the nursing workforce. The report features new indicators on critical areas for nursing, such as education capacity, advanced practice nursing and remuneration.

Human Development Report 2025: A matter of choice: people and possibilities in the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI) (UNDP)
Report in English, Overview in English, French & Spanish: https://hdr.undp.org/content/human-development-report-2025
Digital Report: https://report.hdr.undp.org/
Human development progress is experiencing an unprecedented slowdown according to the 2025 Human Development Report released on 6 May 2025 by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The report shows how Artificial Intelligence (AI) could reignite development. Instead of seeing sustained recovery following the period of exceptional crises of 2020-2021, the report reveals unexpectedly weak progress. Excluding those crisis years, the meagre rise in global human development projected in this year’s report is the smallest increase since 1990.

At its first session, the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) requested the United Nations System produce such a report on the state of the world’s Indigenous Peoples (SOWIP).

• this includes Biographical data on the members of the economic elite (gender, age, place of birth, nationality, etc.).
• Socio-economic origins
• Wealth of individuals as communicated in the media.
• Educational background (university education, educational institution, type of degree, discipline, etc.).
• Career (position held, duration, in which company or organisation, etc.)
• Variables on the most important companies on the national economic scene (market capitalisation, turnover, number of employees, etc.).

What does it take to persuade policy makers to make real progressive change? Kath Ford explains how Oxford University’s Young Lives study found success with a combination of robust longitudinal data, translating research into policy influencing and, crucially, relationships built painstakingly...

By Ron Salaj 

The Incompatibility of AI and Humanitarian Principles

Online exhibition, exploring 80 key documents that have shaped the United Nations and our world.

World Health Organization
World report on social determinants of health equity, 2025
This report from the WHO on the social determinants of health equity confirms that people's health and wellbeing depends on much more than their genes and access to health care. To reduce these avoidable and unjust health gaps, it is vital to address the non-medical root causes that shape most people's health and wellbeing.

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The World Social Report (WSR) is a publication issued by the Division for Inclusive Social Development of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA). This report serves as a valuable tool for analyzing and researching global social development issues. It offers valuable insights into current trends and upcoming challenges.

Analysis in English on Afghanistan about Education, Food and Nutrition and more; published on 27 Apr 2025 by AP GiHA WG and UN Women

The Annual Overview of Migratory Routes aims to provide a global snapshot of migration in 2024 from a route-based perspective. This approach investigates routes across national and regional boundaries, requiring a multi-country perspective and holistic view of human mobility, which considers people at origin, in transit, and at their destinations. By using this approach, the report seeks to provide an overview of the main dynamics along some of the world’s key migratory routes.

Temporary Trade Barriers Database

Temporary Trade Barriers Database (World Bank)

This database collects information on the use of temporary trade barriers in the form of antidumping, countervailing, and safeguard measures across over 30 countries since the 1980s through 2024. These policy measures, often referred to as trade remedy actions, are implemented by government authorities against imports likely to have an adverse effect on national production, either by dumping, subsidies, or import surges by foreign sellers.