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The international development sector needs to think twice when talking about ‘in-country refugee costs’ and ODA | Bond When talking about ‘in-country refugee costs’ and ODA, we should think twice to avoid feeding into existing harmful narratives.

“A person facing poverty and oppression shouldn’t only be ‘worthy’ if they are ‘over there’ in one of the ‘world’s poorest countries’, yet ‘unworthy’ if they become an ‘in-country refugee’.” #RefugeesWelcome www.bond.org.uk/news/2023/03...

30.03.2025 10:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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‘British values’: failures in colonial memory With the 70th anniversary of Partition passing this summer, Maryam Jameela talks about the legacy of empire in today’s Britain

“The idea of ‘British values’, touted as freedom, tolerance, and respect rings completely hollow when we aren’t honest about British history in all its brutality.” mediadiversified.org/2017/09/06/b...

30.03.2025 10:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Can Development Aid ever be Anti-Racist? Guest blog by Neha Kagal

“Development aid is like trying to pour water into a bucket with a hole. The hole is systemic inequality/injustices held in place by a racist global system. Although we will never be able to fill the bucket, we will always feel superior because we were trying” medium.com/we-need-to-t...

30.03.2025 10:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why I'm Okay With Losing at the Woke Olympics | OkayAfrica 'We need to think about the ways in which the 'practice' of a Woke Olympics affords us public praise, but does little to engineer a meaningful everyday politics, IRL as well as URL.'

www.okayafrica.com/south-africa...

30.03.2025 10:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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