By Samia Islam, Professor of Economics, Boise State University
Kelly Chen, Associate Professor of Economics, Boise State University
Two economists found links between the adoption of right-to-work laws and the opioid overdoses of working-age male teens and men.
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By Herkulaas MvE Combrink, Senior lecturer/ Co-Director, University of the Free State
Social Stress Indicator is invaluable for digital governance, crisis response, mental health monitoring, and platform design to track and respond to social stress.
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By Jacques Matthee, Senior Lecturer, University of the Free State
Grey Stopforth, Lecturer in Department of Mercantile Law at the Faculty of Law, University of the Free State
A South African court case made headlines for all the wrong reasons in January 2025. The legal team in Mavundla v MEC: Department of Co-Operative Government and Traditional Affairs KwaZulu-Natal and Others had relied on case law that simply didn’t exist. It had been generated by ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by OpenAI.
Only two of the nine case authorities the legal team submitted to the…
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By Thulani Andrew Chauke, Lecturer, University of South Africa
About 3.5 million South Africans aged 15-24 are disengaged from the formal economy and education system. In the first quarter of 2025, 37.1% of young people were not in employment, education, or training.
These alarming figures highlight an urgent need for youth development. Interventions such as skills and entrepreneurship development are needed to expertly guide young people towards…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK, June 20, 2022. © 2022 BCDS/Wikimedia Sheffield Hallam University in England terminated a project about Uyghur forced labor after Chinese state security officers reportedly interrogated a staff member in Beijing and a Chinese company named in a report filed a defamation lawsuit in the United Kingdom. The project was led by Laura Murphy, a professor of human rights and modern slavery at Sheffield Hallam.In February, the university removed reports from its website that Murphy and others had published at the Forced Labor…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The Australia Security Intelligence Organisation believes there is a “realistic possibility” a foreign government will try to assassinate a “perceived dissident” in Australia, ASIO’s boss Mike Burgess has revealed.
Delivering the 2025 Lowy lecture on Tuesday, Burgess said: “This threat is real.
"We believe there are at least three nations willing and capable of conducting lethal targeting here. It is entirely possible the regimes would try to hide their involvement by hiring criminal cut outs, as Iran did when directing its arson attacks.”
He stressed he was…
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By Laura
In the major cities of Central Sahel countries, such as Niamey, Bamako, and Ouagadougou, children are forced to beg on the streets, often in the name of religion.
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By Amnesty International
The government is putting the well-being and in many cases the lives of the more than five million people living in South Africa’s informal settlements at risk by failing to provide them with access to quality housing and essential services, Amnesty International South Africa said in a new report. These people, many of them living […] The post South Africa: Government is failing millions of people trapped in informal settlements and impacted by the climate crisis – new report appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A woman is detained by US Border Patrol agents outside a Home Depot in Los Angeles, California, August 15, 2025. © 2025 Gregory Bull/AP Photo The US government is conducting an ongoing campaign of raids and detentions across the country to advance a policy of mass deportation that is ripping families apart and terrorizing entire communities.This campaign started, in its most aggressive form, in Los Angeles this past summer, setting the stage for similar tactics in other US cities, and relies in large part on detaining people based on their perceived race, ethnicity,…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
On Monday alone, the Liberals wallowed in the crisis over energy policy, its parliamentarians indulged in more than 35 media appearances.
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