From Evaluation to Learning in Social Change
By: Srilatha Batliwala The Challenges of 'Measuring Development, Holding Infinity In the knowledge economy: The theory-practice divide is very porous…
Capitalism: A Ghost Story
By: Arundhati Roy The word on the street (and in the New York Times) is, or at least was, that…
When Rights Go Wrong – Distorting the Rights Based Approach to Development
By: Srilatha Batliwala Over the past fifty years of development history, we have seen the repeated distortion of good ideas…
Movement Case Study: The Right-to-Know Movement in India
By: Vivek Ramkumar A two-part case study of India's peasant- and worker-led Right to Information Campaign, connecting livelihood struggles with…
JASS Annual Report 2011
Check out some highlights from 2011 in our Annual Report. We hope that the stories in this report shed light…
Quotas Alone Are Not Enough
As many Southeast Asian countries gear up for elections in 2012, governments and development organizations have turned to quotas to…
My experience at the 6th Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights (APCRSHR) in Indonesia
It was a great opportunity to be part of an Asia Pacific level conference that is so reputable, particularly for…
Feminist Activists Write On!
“Feminist movement builders in Indonesia are sharpening their pencils and booting up their laptops. Fourteen young women from across Indonesia recently came together to improve their writing skills as a critical tool for effective activism and advocacy. “I want to write about the difficulties experienced by rural women in accessing health facilities," said Sutiyem.
Young Timorese Women Clear Up Confusion around LGBTI
How does a woman have sex with another woman? Can a transgender person change both their internal and external sexual…
