By Milad Haghani, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow in Urban Risk and Resilience, The University of Melbourne
If larger vehicles make us feel safer inside them, do they also make us take more risks behind the wheel?
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By Betty Medsger, Professor Emeritus of Journalism, San Francisco State University
Two US wars based on lies, in which tens of thousands of American troops and millions of civilians died, offer a cautionary tale about the rush to war.
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By Jake Scott, Clinical Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases, Stanford University
Federal officials are questioning the safety of the vaccine series children receive. Here’s the story of how the childhood vaccine schedule came about.
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By Michael J. Armstrong, Associate Professor, Operations Research, Brock University
Police reported more drug and alcohol impairment after 2018. The growth seemed more due to enforcement changes and pandemic restrictions than to legalized cannabis.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Kazakhstan Senate. © 2018 SenateKz/Wikimedia Kazakhstan’s Senate adopted two rights-violating laws on December 18, both of them threatening freedom of expression. The first is a discriminatory draft law banning so-called propaganda of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) expression, which would make it illegal to publicly support LGBT rights. The clear intention of the bill is to silence all forms of pro-LGBT expression.The second is a draft law on crime prevention, which introduces the notion of “antisocial behavior,” or behavior that contravenes…
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By Frank Deer, Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Manitoba
Annie Pullen Sansfaçon, Professor of Social Work, Université de Montréal
Apart from impacting individuals, false declarations of Indigenous identity can impact institutions’ reputations and harm Indigenous academics and research communities.
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By Sean Foreman, Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Barry University
After its first competitive mayoral election in 20 years, the city of Miami has a new mayor: former Miami-Dade County commissioner Eileen Higgins.
During the heated campaign, both national political parties were active in organizing voters and providing resources. Many high-profile politicians…
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By Amnesty International
States must prevent the Portuguese-flagged Holger G vessel – which is carrying munition components bound for Israel – from docking at their ports, given the clear risk that its cargo would contribute to the ongoing genocide in the occupied Gaza Strip, as well as to war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinians, Amnesty International […] The post Israel/OPT: States must not assist the Holger G’s transportation of explosives to Israel appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
Reacting to the agreements between the European Parliament and Council on new EU asylum rules, which undermine the very foundation of refugee protection, Olivia Sundberg Diez, the EU Advocate on Migration and Asylum at Amnesty International said: “This is an unprecedented attack on asylum in the EU, which must be understood in the context of […] The post EU: New rules on asylum and ‘safe countries’ undermine the foundation of refugee protection appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
Reacting to today’s ruling by the European Court of Justice that the Danish law on parallel societies (known as the “ghetto law”) is incompatible with the EU’s directive on equal treatment, Dina Hashem, Senior Legal Advisor at Amnesty International Denmark, said: “Today’s ruling is an important step in protecting human rights and respecting the equality […] The post Denmark: ECJ ruling that ghetto law is potentially unlawful is important step in protecting basic human rights appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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