By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Bangladesh Federation of Worker Solidarity activists hold a rally in Dhaka on May 7, 2023 to mark ten years since the Rana Plaza building collapse that killed more than 1,130 people. © 2023 Mamunur Rashid/NurPhoto via AP On July 23, Human Rights Watch filed a written submission to the European Commission on the European Union’s landmark corporate accountability law, the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive.The European Commission is currently formulating guidance on how companies should implement the law, which requires businesses to identify and…
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By Daniel Patrick Strogen, PhD Candidate in Linguistics, Swansea University
Schools can teach Welsh, but can they create lifelong speakers? New research suggests the answer is more complicated than policy assumes.
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By Reza Hasmath, Professor in Political Science, University of Alberta
China’s new ethnic unity law reaches across borders. The danger is not that it does so. It is what it criminalizes, whom it targets, and how it enforces.
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By Su Kyung (Irene) Kim, Assistant Professor, Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba
Xiang Yao, Associate Professor, Department of Management and Social Psychology, Peking University
Xiaoxiao Hu, Professor of Management, West Virginia University
Yujie Zhan, Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management, Wilfrid Laurier University
Front-line workers have little control over how customers treat them. New research on taxi drivers points to a simple coping habit.
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By Allison Glazebrook, Professor of Classics and Archaeology, Brock University
The women of Homer’s Odyssey were cunning, desiring and powerful. Nolan’s adaptation turns them into figures of suffering, sacrifice and regret.
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By Christina E. Hoicka, Canada Research Chair in Urban Planning for Climate Change, Associate Professor of Geography and Civil Engineering, University of Victoria
Rebecca Black, Community Researcher, Geography & Civil Engineering, University of Victoria
Canada’s transition to a low-carbon energy system is creating one of the fastest-growing labour markets in the country. Yet despite strong job growth projections, a predicted workforce shortfall looms in a sector where salaries often surpass average earnings.
One reason is that the clean energy workforce remains persistently inequitable. Women and other equity-seeking groups
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By Jayme Lewthwaite, Postdoctoral Fellow, Entomology, Carleton University
Arne Mooers, Professor, Biodiversity, Phylogeny & Evolution, Simon Fraser University
Butterflies are charismatic, colourful and cherished around the world. One of the most diverse groups of insects, with more than 19,000 described species, they inspire international organizations such as the North American Butterfly Association and the Xerces Society, as well as countless websites devoted to their identification, monitoring…
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By Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Fellow for the Middle East at the Baker Institute, Rice University
The ongoing war in Iran has created an expanding zone of risk for shipping, including for Saudi Arabia’s strategy of redirecting oil exports away from Hormuz.
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By Keion Harris, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan
Stephanie Leiser, Director, Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy, University of Michigan
The city of Detroit has hired a senior director of retail attraction to bring national and regional chains into the city.
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By Robin Macaluso, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Arlington
Turns out, changing the way atoms and molecules are arranged in a substance can give it new and fascinating properties.
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