By Emmanuel Sael, Docteur en administration publique et chargé d'enseignement, École nationale d'administration publique (ENAP)
Jean-François Savard, Professeur agrégé, École nationale d'administration publique (ENAP)
Haiti will be able to emerge from the crisis it is in if it has a strong public administration and co-ordinated international aid from countries that respect human rights.
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By Emmanuel Sael, Docteur en administration publique et chargé d'enseignement, École nationale d'administration publique (ENAP)
Jean-François Savard, Professeur agrégé, École nationale d'administration publique (ENAP)
Haiti will be able to emerge from the crisis it is in if it has a strong public administration and co-ordinated international aid from countries that respect human rights.
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Thursday, March 28, 2024
Russia must immediately release American journalist Evan Gershkovich, who has been detained without evidence for a year, two UN human rights experts said on Thursday.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A vigil decrying the assassination of Eswatini Human Rights Lawyer Thulani Maseko in Nakuru Town, Kenya, January 30, 2023. © 2023 James Wakibia/SOPA Images via AP Photo On March 27, immigration officials at the Ngwenya Border post between South Africa and Eswatini stopped Tanele Maseko, widow of murdered human rights lawyer and opposition activist Thulani Maseko, along with her two young children and her helper while they were trying to enter Eswatini. Immigration officials flagged Tanele’s passport as belonging to a wanted person and confiscated it along with her mobile…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Inter Milan's players lift the trophy to celebrate winning the Italian SuperCup football match at the King Fahd International Stadium in Riyadh on January 18, 2023. © 2023 Fayes Nureldine/AFP via Getty Images (Beirut) – A Saudi court sentenced 12 football fans from six months up to a year in prison on March 27, 2024, for peacefully chanting during a January football match, Human Rights Watch said today. Saudi authorities should immediately quash the verdict, which is based solely on the peaceful expression of exuberant football fans. Saudi police summoned and arrested…
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By Dan Baumgardt, Senior Lecturer, School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol
The neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero announced in 2015 that he could soon be capable of performing the world’s first human head transplant procedure. This would mean that it would be possible to remove someone’s head, and graft it onto the neck and shoulders of another person. As of yet, this has only been performed on cadavers and not on living humans.
But suppose you want to keep the face that you’ve already got? Or have grown tired…
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By Adam Behr, Senior Lecturer in Popular and Contemporary Music, Newcastle University
This Town echoes the ways in which music is forged by its social context, while shaping and defining the lives of the people who make it.
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By Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
In mid-February, the leader of Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria, Vadim Krasnoselsky, summoned deputies “of all levels of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic”. The purpose of their meeting, he announced, would be to discuss “pressure from the Republic of Moldova that is violating the rights and worsening the socioeconomic situation of Transnistrians”.
The meeting was set for February 28, the day before Vladimir Putin’s “state of the union” address. This was taken by some – including the influential…
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By Marios Chryssanthopoulos, Professor of Structural Systems, University of Surrey
Catastrophic collapses of major bridges are thankfully rare. Notable examples in the last couple of decades include the failure of the I35-W in Minneapolis in August 2007, and the collapse of the Morandi bridge in Genoa 11 years later. When such events do occur, public attention is understandably focused on the nature of the collapse, which can extend over hundreds…
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By David Thomas, Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
The Dune films remind us of just how beautiful, mysterious, expansive and changeable sand dunes can be. For centuries these wonderful landforms have filled humans with awe – and in some cases fear and foreboding – because of the apparent remoteness and risks associated with the deserts they are synonymous with.
That’s what first attracted me to research deserts and dunes more than 40 years ago, and I have been investigating them ever since. Here are five things I have learned that may surprise you:
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