Human Development Research Initiative

Across Europe, cities are being reshaped by neoliberal planning, financialization, and smart‑city agendas. HDRI’s final 2025 paper, from the Economic, Social and Cultural rights thematic area, unpacks how these forces intersect with spatial polarization, gentrification, and youth precarity , and how they redefine what participation, inclusion, and the right to the city  mean today. From Milan  and Barcelona , our research shows how revitalization strategies, often framed as s

This toolkit is part of HDRI’s first toolkit series and is a collective effort made by our fellow researchers Tara Adiga, Haibado...

This era has marked an increase in student activism and protests happening across the globe. The implementation of school boycotts and...

After demonstrators set fire to the Legislative Palace on November 2020, the Congress of Guatemala qualified the attack of the National...

This paper will explore the multifaceted challenges that the Indian public education system is being faced with as a result of schools...

This research paper aims at addressing the issues of transgender persons in sex industry with major focus on states policies and lack of...