News

Our CEO talks development with Networker Magazine

In this quarter’s edition of The Networker magazine, Restless Development CEO Nik Hartley features in a double page interview where he talks about what it means to be a youth-led organisation and shares his views on critical sector issues. 


22 Feb 2012

Activists Defend 'Pharmacy of the World'

Activists from the Students Stop Campaign and Restless Development massed outside the European Commission offices in London on the 6th February  to demand Europe stops its attack on India’s generic medicine industry. AIDS and public health activists say the EC is using Free Trade Agreement negotiations to force India to accept terms that would amount to Europe ‘closing down the pharmacy of the world’.

10 Feb 2012

UN Youth Appointment to be Made

Last week, the United Nations’ Secretary General, Mr Ban Ki-Moon made an exciting announcement that he is to appoint a new Special Representative for Youth.

09 Feb 2012

Knighthood for our Patron

Our patron and former Chairman of Tesco, David Reid, has been given a knighthood in the New Year Honours; one of only two knighthoods from the business sector this year.

12 Jan 2012

Our CEO is on Twitter!

Our CEO Nik Hartley has decided to embark on the great journey that is Twitter! You can follow him @NikStoke to see what we are getting up to straight from the top!

04 Jan 2012

Calling all social networkers!

Dance4life Zimbabwe – a campaign facilitated by Restless Development – is taking part in an online competition to win a sizeable donation!

07 Dec 2011

HIV prevention in Nepal - Urmila Bhatta

Urmila Bhatta is 22 and a young woman from the remote far western region Kailali in Nepal. In such a place it is the young, like Urmila, who are the most affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the region. The area has a large proportion of male migrant workers and it is common for them to contract the disease working in India before passing it on to their wives when they return.

01 Dec 2011