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Researcher | PhD @issnl | Discussant: @GlobalDevRev | Former Lead Policy Researcher @TISSpeak | Palme Scholar @goteborgsuni | Fellow @LDEGMD |

Netherlands | Pir-Panjal
Joined January 2019
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Public sector workers across the Netherlands are on a 24-hour strike over welfare cuts linked to increased defence spending.
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Rescue teams rush to find people missing on Nepal-Tibet border in flash floods and landslides that killed at least 165 and swept away entire villages, as Nepal's disaster agency says 823 people remained out of contact after deadly floods
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I had an insightful conversation with Prof. Peter Taylor (Director, IDS) about the freeze in development funding—what’s driving it, its impact, and the way forward. A must-listen for those in the development sector and policy making! 🎙️ Do tune in !
🚨 New Episode! 🎙️ The Global Development Review dives into the global freeze in development funding with Prof. Peter Taylor (Director, IDS, UK) and @jafferlatief 🎧 Listen Now Full Episode at: Spotify Link: open.spotify.com/episode/4sg… Podcast Website: shows.acast.com/global-devel…
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Is the Rule-Based World Order diminishing in 2025? @jafferlatief & Professor Richard Falk discuss global instability, shifting power, the UN’s future, & reimagining justice in a changing world. Spotify Link: open.spotify.com/episode/7oA… Podcast Website: shows.acast.com/global-devel…
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📢🎙️ Tune in to the latest Global Development Review Podcast featuring Dr. Angela Me, Chief of Research and Trend Branch at UNODC. This episode dives into the 2024 UNODC Trafficking in Persons Report. Don’t miss it. Click 👇👇 shows.acast.com/global-devel… @UNODC @jafferlatief
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New as Online First: Bryan S. Turner, 'Does the University Have a Future?' - examines the problems facing modern universities such as their loss of independence, bureaucracy and shortage of funding. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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CALL FOR PAPERS ✍️ Anthropology in Action's new editors Dr. Pardis Shafafi and Dr. Samira Marty seek submissions following the theme "Anthropology at the Frontiers" for 2025. View the full call and submission guidelines at berghahnjournals.com/view/jo…
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DR Congo sues Apple, alleging complicity in forced labor and unethical sourcing of minerals. How much do we really know about the origins of the materials in our Apple devices or other tech companies? 🤔
DR Congo sued Apple on Tuesday, accusing the tech giant of being complicit in using minerals mined through forced labor and laundered through international supply chains.
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The war in Sudan has produced the world’s largest displacement crisis, uprooting over 10 million people, and the biggest hunger crisis too. Women and girls have been especially badly impacted, report @RawhNasir and @maxine_moes: buff.ly/4eTzum1
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📣 @IMISCOE launches two Competitive Calls for Book Proposals. Deadlines for each are Oct. 15, 2024. Details on the application process: imiscoe.org/publications/how…
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Pir Panjal appears the deciding factor in today's #JammuAndKashmir election. If NC & allies had lost 5 PP seats to BJP, the numbers would flip: NC+allies 44 vs BJP+others 47 : (29+5+1+7)=42 + 5 (nominated), potentially securing BJP the majority The Pir Panjal factor weakened BJP
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Migration & Anti-trafficking scholars, we invite you to submit your abstracts for our proposed IMISCOE 2025 panel in Paris, reflecting on 25 years of the UN Human Trafficking Protocol. Please see the attached details for more information
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📢 Exciting Announcement! 📢 Stay tuned for our upcoming podcast episode, which we will publish next week. This episode is part of our scholarly series, "New Knowledge for Development Alternatives," produced in collaboration with New Women Connectors.
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We welcome the decision of the UK Government to end the plan to transfer asylum seekers to Rwanda, and to accept responsibility to protect the rights of refugees and asylum seekers, without discrimination.
Independent human rights experts welcome the decision by the newly elected #UK Government to scrap the policy to transfer asylum seekers to Rwanda. ➡️ ow.ly/PCkx50SyPKw
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🚨 BREAKING: The European Parliament has released its first full hemicycle projection. This is how the next Parliament will look. More updates on our live blog: trib.al/IndCxqT More in-depth country breakdowns: trib.al/TPyyXSK
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EU elections from June 6 to June 9 are expected to have significant consequences for the 27-member bloc's policies aje.io/wtfdzw
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