By Marlese von Broembsen, Associate Professor (in Labour Law and Development), University of the Western Cape
A new report from the International Labour Organisation outlines a set of propositions on how countries should go about formalising the informal economy. The report provides the basis for negotiations on the subject at the International Labour Conference in Geneva in June 2025.
Formalising the…
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By Kate Gannon, Assistant Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science
Shaikh Eskander, Visiting Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science
Women in Africa are often framed as especially vulnerable to climate change. Our earlier research suggested that women entrepreneurs often face a “triple differential vulnerability” to climate risk compared to men.
What we mean is that there are three possible reasons for their additional vulnerability. First, their livelihoods are often in climate sensitive sectors. Second, they face additional barriers to accessing resources for adaptation in the business environment – such as finance, new adaptation technologies and markets…
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By Tinashe P. Kanosvamhira, Post-doctoral researcher, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town
New research has found that thousands of University of Western Cape students can’t afford healthy campus food, and end up eating non-nutritious meals.
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By Érick Duchesne, Professeur, Département de science politique, Université Laval
Gregory Cameron, Associate Professor of Political Science and Rural Studies, Dalhousie University
Gumataw Kifle Abebe, Associate Professor, Agriculture, Dalhousie University
Monika Korzun, Assistant Professor, Environment and Society, St. Thomas University (Canada)
Earlier this year, Donald Trump’s administration in the United States reimposed tariffs on Canadian items, including agricultural products, citing supposed national security concerns. Agricultural products have little to do with defence, and the move sent shockwaves through Canada’s farming community.
We are members of the Common Ground Network, a national initiative of about…
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By Anthony Bonato, Professor of Mathematics, Toronto Metropolitan University
While we don’t know what went wrong between Trump and Musk, their feud reveals a potentially impactful disruption in American politics.
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By Ruchira Nandasiri, Instructor, Agrology, University of Manitoba
Miyoung Suh, Professor, Food and Human Nutritional Sciences, University of Manitoba
Indoor farming helps northern Manitoba communities access fresh, healthy food and address rising rates of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and hypertension.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Former Israeli Knesset member and current National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (R) and Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich speak in parliament, in Jerusalem, November 15, 2022. © 2022 Abir Sultan/AP Photo Australia, along with the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and Norway have imposed Magnitsky-style sanctions on Israel’s national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, and the finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich.These ministers have been sanctioned for their role in inciting violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. Since October 2023, Israeli military…
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Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Twelve-year-old Tenasoa crawls to work every day at a mine in eastern Madagascar where she collects two kilos of the shiny mineral mica each day. She cannot walk because of a physical disability.
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By Adrienne Lees, Researcher, Institute of Development Studies
Uganda is one of the countries most exposed to recent cuts in international aid, particularly with the dissolution of the US Agency for International Development (USAID). In 2023, about 5% of gross national income – a measure of a country’s total income, including income from foreign sources – was received in aid.
The cuts have given new impetus to the drive…
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By David Álvarez Alonso, Profesor Titular de Prehistoria, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Andrés Díez Herrero, Profesor de Investigación (Dr. Ciencias Geológicas), Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME - CSIC)
María de Andrés-Herrero, Departamento de Prehistoria, Historia Antigua y Arqueología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Miguel Angel Mate Gonzalez, Personal Docente e Investigador - Contratado Ramón y Cajal , Universidad de Salamanca
A unique archaeological find has recently expanded our knowledge of Neanderthals’ capacity for symbolic thought. The object in question is a granite stone, on which a red ochre dot was deliberately applied to reinforce the image of a human face. It is, to date, the oldest example of portable art associated with Neanderthals.
The most remarkable aspect of this discovery was the identification of a fingerprint in the pigment, at a level we have unequivocally dated to more than 42,000 years ago.
The fingerprint means the find is direct evidence of a symbolic action that we…
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