By Santosh Kumar Gautam, Associate Professor of Development and Global Health Economics, University of Notre Dame
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices guides the CDC’s hand on vaccine policy, but some of its new members have voiced anti-vaccine views.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Pedestrians walk past the Federal High Court building in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 1, 2011. © 2011 AP Photo Ethiopian authorities have been detaining the renowned journalist Tesfalem Woldeyes since Sunday on allegations of “dissemination false information,” despite a court order to release him on bail. Tesfalem is editor-in-chief of the independent media outlet Ethiopia Insider and has faced repeated harassment by the authorities. The media reported that a plainclothes intelligence official arrested Tesfalem on June 8 at a hotel near a soccer stadium…
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By Georgia Popplewell
Try your luck on this week's News Quiz, where you can test your knowledge of topics and events covered in recent Global Voices stories!
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By Gemma Ware, Head of Audio, The Conversation UK
The Conversation’s audio team is celebrating a very successful night at the Publisher Podcast awards where The Conversation won Podcast Publisher of the Year.
The judges said: “This particular publisher has been entering these awards since the start and it’s been a real honour to watch their work grow in quality and depth each year, to the point they were placed in the top 3 of every single category they entered this year.”
We were also thrilled that our recent…
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By Abbas Yazdinejad, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Artificial Intelligence, University of Toronto
Jude Kong, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the world, from diagnosing diseases in hospitals to catching fraud in banking systems. But it’s also raising urgent questions.
As G7 leaders prepare to meet in Alberta, one issue looms large: how can we build powerful AI systems without…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Migrant workers at a construction site amid scorching heat in the Saudi capital Riyadh, on June 16, 2022. © 2022 FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP via Getty Images In March 2025, Muhammad Arshad, a Pakistani migrant worker in Saudi Arabia, fell to his death while working on the construction of Al Khobar’s Aramco Stadium, a 2034 FIFA World Cup and 2027 Asian Football Confederation Cup facility. Arshad’s death and the loss of his income leaves his family, including three sons under age eight, without their sole line of support.As we mark World Day Against Child Labor,…
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Thursday, June 12, 2025
Tens of thousands of people went missing in Syria over the past 50 years including during 14 years of civil war. Now, some families are able to live in hope as the Middle Eastern country emerges from the traumatic period of dictatorship and conflict.
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By Paul Whiteley, Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
The Musk v Trump media battle went very public, but polls just after the scrap showing that Americans felt more favourably towards the president than Musk.
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By Sarah Louisa Bowen, Head of Animation at the Northern Film School, Leeds Beckett University
The differences between live action and animation are not as pronounced as might be expected in films made 15 years apart.
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By Julie Tinson, Professor of Marketing, University of Stirling
Peter Nuttall, Associate Dean and Senior Lecturer in Marketing, University of Bath
The high school prom, an American institution, has now been a mainstay in UK culture for over 25 years. A prom heralds the end of exams and the end of school altogether – and the beginning of a new chapter of life. It’s an opportunity for teens to dress up in glamorous dresses and smart tuxedos, and maybe arrive in style in the back of a limo.
It’s an adolescent ritual that might be seen as a one-off, frivolous event. But a prom is much more important than that.
The research for…
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