Development alternatives

University of York Centre for Applied Human Rights (CAHR), is an interdisciplinary research and teaching centre. It is a friendly community of scholars and visiting practitioners who have a shared focus on the real world challenges of putting human rights into practice and protecting human rights defenders at risk. A focus on human rights defending and defenders shapes all the Centre’s work.

University of York Centre for Modern Studies at York (CModS), is a vibrant research centre dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of the period from 1830 to the present. CModS promotes innovative, world-class research across the arts and humanities, in the fields of literature, film, history, politics, philosophy, sociology, music, media studies, performance studies and the fine and applied arts.

Makerere University School of Languages, Literature and Communication is one of the five Schools that constitute the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. The School has five Departments: Literature; Journalism and Communication; European and Oriental Languages; African Languages; and Linguistics, English Language Studies and Communication Skills.

Chittagong University Institute of Fine Arts was founded in 1969 has a tradition of excellence in practical and experimental fine arts training. The Institute teaches undergraduate level sculpture, painting, printing, portraiture, history of art and media arts, and a masters in art theory and practise.

ActionAid is a global federation working for a world free from poverty and injustice to achieve social justice and gender equality, and to eradicate poverty. Their strategy is to build international momentum for social, economic and environmental justice, driven by people living in poverty and exclusion. ActionAid work falls into four broad areas: women, politics and economics, land and climate, and emergencies. They have a particular focus on women’s rights. In practice, this means working closely with people living in poverty and exclusion, civil society organisations, social movements and supporters. They deliver grassroots programmes, provide emergency relief and campaign for things such as women’s economic rights, tax justice and climate justice.

Jog Art Space, based in Chittagong, Bangladesh, provides the local visual arts community with mentoring support, exhibition opportunities, platforms for exchange and discussion and access to international artists, in a city where many emerging artists find it difficult to survive. Founded as an informal learning platform which artists could prolong their education, Jog Art Space, has grown to become an important initiative for artists living and working in Chittagong, especially as a support network and platform to revive artists’ whose practice has lapsed.

Femrite is the Ugandan Women Writers Association. The organisation holds regular writing workshops and residential retreats, as well as running its own publishing arm, and is one of numerous organisations working with Commonwealth Writers, a development foundation in the UK, which aims to unearth and nurture less-heard voices from across the Commonwealth; it also awards an annual prize for a best unpublished short story.

Pica artist led studios is a collective of artists working alongside each other in an old printmakers in central York. Currently the collective includes ceramicists, painters, printers, textile and paper based artists, jewellers, writers, art historians, filmmakers, and musicians.