By Shahira Shahir, Senior Research Assistant, Cardiff School of Management, Cardiff Metropolitan University
Shaista Noor, Senior Lecturer in Business, Teesside University
Xiaoni Ren, Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management, Cardiff Metropolitan University
Picture this: you have spent decades building a career. You have a master’s degree. You have taught hundreds of students. You walk into work every morning with a sense of purpose. Then, almost overnight, the gates close. You are told you cannot come back. Not because of anything you did, but simply because of you are a woman.
This is what happened to female academics across Afghanistan after the Taliban returned to power in August 2021.
We conducted interviews with 12 Afghan…
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By Shambhavi Siddhi, PhD Candidate, Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, Western University
The stark difference in women’s education statistics shows how Kashmiri girls and women are bearing a disproportionate brunt of militarized governance.
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By Amnesty International
As a result of Venezuelan victims’ fight for justice under universal jurisdiction in Argentina, manifested by filing complaints before Argentine courts, and responding to recent reports of an extradition request from Argentine to Spanish authorities, Ana Piquer, Americas Director at Amnesty International, stated today: “Crimes against humanity, such as those committed in Venezuela, must stir […] The post International: Spanish and Argentinian authorities must support justice for Venezuelan victims of crimes against humanity appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image An American flag flies outside the Department of Justice in Washington, March 22, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Andrew Harnik The Trump administration’s decision to establish a US$1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” to compensate participants of the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol Building in Washington, DC, has triggered widespread public outrage. Many people, including Black reparations movement leaders and advocates, have pointed out a jarring double standard: as the administration moves quickly to provide financial redress for its political base, decades…
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By Andrew Parsons, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
A father is worried about his toddler, who has been running a fever for two days and pulling at one ear. A 65-year-old woman has been getting winded on her morning walks and feeling more fatigued than usual. Both reach for their phones and type their symptoms into an AI chatbot.
“Your child likely has an ear infection,” the father learns. “Your symptoms could indicate a cardiac condition,” the woman reads.
Those are helpful answers – and there’s a good chance they’re correct. Artificial intelligence is approaching, and in some cases exceeding, doctors’ ability to make…
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By Ivis García, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University
Subsidized insurance makes waterfront property seem safer than it is for wealthier buyers, while many low-income homeowners face repeat disasters with no help.
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By Douglas Goodwin, Lecturer in Design and Media Arts, University of California, Los Angeles; California Institute of the Arts
A photographer describes how your phone camera flattens and dulls the colors in photos – and how to regain an appreciation for the wide spectrum of colors.
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By Patty Heyda, Professor of Urban Design and Architecture, Washington University in St. Louis
From who gets to vote to how people travel and where taxpayer dollars are funneled, politicians and urban planners wield maps to control public imagination.
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By Katie Savin, Assistant Professor of Social Work, California State University, Sacramento
Callie Freitag, Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Matthew Borus, Assistant Professor of Social Work, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Researchers learned from dozens of interviews that the usual ways of resolving complex cases, escalating issues and holding the authorities accountable no longer work.
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By James Malm, Associate Professor of Finance and Director of the Global Business Resource Center, College of Charleston
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com.
What happens to debt when someone dies? – Lucy, age 17, Cincinnati, Ohio
Imagine everyone has a large piggy bank that represents everything they own. Inside it are items such as cash in a bank account, a…
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