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1 week ago | 
idronline.org | Tanupriya Singh
Over the past few years, there has been a renewed focus on early childhood education (ECE) in India, with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 serving as a major impetus. The policy places particular emphasis on ECE, which focuses on children between the ages of three and six years, and links it to formal schooling. While the right to education has not yet been extended to children under the age of six, the NEP aims to universalise ECE by 2030.
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2 weeks ago | 
idronline.org | Tanupriya Singh
Three perspectives, one conversation. A developer, an investor, and a development professional unpack what it would take to make renewable energy truly people-centric. As with any large infrastructure push, renewable energy (RE) expansion can bring unintended consequences for the communities living in and around project sites, such as reducing access to arable land, disrupting livelihoods, and reshaping local economies.
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2 weeks ago | 
idronline.org | Tanupriya Singh
We want IDR to be as much yours as it is ours. Tell us what you want to read.
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1 month ago | 
idronline.org | Tanupriya Singh
In just four questions, learn what FRA is, why it was enacted, how it aims to benefit India’s forest-dwelling communities, and what are the barriers in doing so. India’s Forest Rights Act impacts an estimated 150 million forest-dwelling people, 40 million hectares of land, and 1,70,000 villages. The act is considered a landmark legislation for the country’s Adivasis and other forest-dwelling communities who were exploited and removed from their own land during colonial rule.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
blackagendareport.com | Abayomi Azikiwe |Aby L. Sène |Tanupriya Singh |David Broder
Newly elected President Bola Tinubu, the Chair of ECOWAS, has mounting political problems while advocating military intervention in neighboring Niger. Originally published in Fighting Words. Nigeria is Africa’s most populous state and is listed as having the largest economy on the continent with huge deposits of oil, natural gas and other strategic resources.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Tanupriya Singh
Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi have already proclaimed a state of national disaster as a severe drought has damaged swathes of crop area. Millions across the region are facing severe hunger and livelihood losses, with smallholder farmers striving to cope with the climate crisis and colonial monoculture patterns of farmingMillions of people across Southern Africa are facing severe hunger, loss of livelihood, and displacement as a drought has engulfed large parts of the region.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
popularresistance.org | Tanupriya Singh
Above photo: Ola Bini (seated) attends the hearing at the Provincial Court of Pichincha on April 5. @inredh1/X. Arrested on the same day as his friend Julian Assange in 2019, software developer and activist Ola Bini has faced years of persecution in Ecuador. Despite being declared innocent in 2023, an appeals court has now convicted him for “Attempted Non-Consensual Access to a Computer System”.
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Apr 7, 2024 | 
peoplesdispatch.org | Tanupriya Singh
Ola Bini (seated) attends the hearing at the Provincial Court of Pichincha on April 5. Photo: @inredh1/X A court in Ecuador has sentenced Swedish software developer and digital rights activist, Ola Bini, to one year in prison for “Attempted Non-Consensual Access to a Computer System”.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
truthdig.com | Tanupriya Singh
Millions of people across Southern Africa are facing severe hunger, loss of livelihood, and displacement as a drought has engulfed large parts of the region. The climate crisis has exacerbated the impacts of what is otherwise the naturally occuring El Niño weather phenomenon (a warming of the surface of the eastern Pacific ocean) — the result being the driest conditions in the region in over four decades and widespread crop failures in countries including Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Botswana.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Tanupriya Singh
44-year-old Faye won the March 24 election with 54.2% of the vote, according to the official provisional results from the National Voting Census Commission. He has promised to restore the republic's institutions, renegotiate mining and energy contracts, and work towards monetary reform, including potentially a new currencyOpposition leader Bassirou Diomaye Faye is set to assume the presidency of Senegal after the historic election of March 24.
