By Emily Doyle, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Science and the Environment, Grenfell campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland
School food can connect people powerfully to their local lands, resources and economies, and be a tool towards reconciliation with Indigenous communities.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image An Intersex flag raised in front of the Berlin Senate Department for Justice, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination. © 2022 Christophe Gateau/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images The United Nations Human Rights Council has passed its first ever resolution affirming the rights of intersex people, signaling growing international resolve to address rights violations experienced by people born with variations in their sex characteristics. The resolution was put forward by the governments of Australia, Chile, Finland, and South Africa and is called “Combating discrimination, violence…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image United Nations European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, September 11, 2023. © 2023 Denis Balibouse/Reuters A United Nations human rights body has criticized the United Kingdom government for “involuntary, compulsory treatment and detention” of people with disabilities inside and outside hospitals and urged UK authorities to guarantee access to community-based services. The Human Rights Committee, a body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by states’ parties to the treaty, published its…
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By Matthew Carl Ives, Senior Researcher in Economics, University of Oxford
Belinda Wade, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Business, The University of Queensland
Saphira Rekker, Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Finance, The University of Queensland
Cement and fossil fuel production has reached unprecedented levels, with most of the emission growth traceable to a relatively small number of companies.
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By Michael Lambert, Research Fellow and Director of Widening Participation, Lancaster University
Securing the reluctant assent of general practitioners (GPs) was one of Labour health minister Nye Bevan’s most difficult tasks in founding the NHS by July 5 1948.
The events behind this have been the subject of two new plays in the west end of London: one by Michael Sheen, the other by Lucy Kirkwood. The events themselves are even more…
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By Rayna Denison, Professor of Film and Digital Arts, University of Bristol
The MonsterVerse is a slick, well-defined giant monster mythos that has further globalised Godzilla – and King Kong along with him.
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By David Rothery, Professor of Planetary Geosciences, The Open University
Earth was long thought to be the only planet in our Solar System with an ocean, but it is beginning to look as though there are underground oceans inside even the most surprising icy bodies.
In fact, icy moons and dwarf planets in the outer Solar System appear to have liquid oceans below layers of thick ice. Recent research suggests there could even be oceans inside bodies beyond Pluto. That is surprising, as these bodies have surface temperatures…
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By Thomas F. Schaller, Professor of Political Science, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Rural white people have long held disproportionate power in US politics. But polls suggest their commitments to the American political system are eroding.
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By Samuel Bagg, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of South Carolina
People love to hate bureaucracy, but regulatory agencies play key roles in modern society. Conservatives want to cut back their power, but a political scientist proposes a different option.
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By Travis Nemkov, Assistant Research Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
An elite athlete’s metabolism mostly looks different from a patient with COVID-19 − but their occasional similarities can reveal important insights into health and disease.
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