By Danica Sims, Senior lecturer in Medical Education, University of Oxford
Health workers consistently move from poorer countries to richer ones, a pattern that tracks closely along lines drawn by colonial history.
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By Jonathan Presley, Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam
Evelyn Ersanilli, Senior Reseacher, University of Amsterdam
Labour migration from Kenya was oriented towards Africa, North America and Europe until the 1990s. Kenyans then started moving to the Gulf countries, such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Oman. Most Kenyan labour migrants to the Gulf perform low-waged work, the women in domestic occupations and the men as security guards.
By 2025…
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By Zulker Naeen
As Iran-Israel-US tensions escalated into conflict and supply chains disrupted, Bangladesh is facing an energy crisis, heavily exposed by its reliance on imports, which supply about 95 percent of its national energy needs.
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Saturday, April 11, 2026
The UN’s Independent International Scientific Panel on AI – the first global body of its kind – is gearing up for its inaugural in-person summit.
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By Jennifer Levasseur, Curator of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
At this point in NASA’s human spaceflight story, researchers have a substantial amount of material – documents, artifacts and images – with which to tell the stories of past flights to space. But with NASA’s Artemis II mission around the Moon now in the books, we’re getting a refreshed look at space.
And the digital photographs transmitted back to Earth – even mid-mission…
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By Jeffrey Taliaferro, Professor of Political Science, Tufts University
China and Russia view the latest Washington intervention in the Middle East as a further decline of the United States’ global power.
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By Global Voices Eurasia
The Azerbaijani media is softening the regime’s harsh authoritarian practices by contrasting them with images of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s family conducting familial, religious and charitable activities.
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By Kar-Hai Chu, Associate Professor of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
Maggie Slavin, Research Program Supervisor, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
As childhood vaccination rates in Allegheny County decline, The Conversation asked experts why parents are opting out and how to protect vaccination policy.
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By Anastasia Klimchynskaya, Assistant Professor of English, Illinois Wesleyan University
Going to the Moon isn’t just about science. Novelist Jules Verne predicted some of the societal ramifications modern lunar missions are creating today.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Koo Sze-yiu carries a coffin that reads, “The people’s heroes, they shall remain forever immortal" at a protest in Hong Kong, May 26, 2019 © 2019 AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File Koo Sze-yiu was a fixture of Hong Kong’s protest scene. Standing out with his close-cropped hair and long gray beard, the gruffy activist and other leaders of the League of Social Democrats nevertheless fit right in marching next to lawyers and tens of thousands, sometimes millions, of ordinary Hong Kongers demanding democracy.Protesting in Hong Kong had never been easy. Demonstrations often took…
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