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Jul 21, 2022

More young voters could come out to vote in November, sparked by abortion and other hot political issues

Abortion-rights activists gather in front of the Supreme Court in May 2022 ahead of the Dobbs decision. Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Abby Kiesa, Tufts University The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the constitutional right to abortion has far-reaching personal and political implications and may help decide the midterm elections in November

Jul 20, 2022

Peace for Columbia: President Petro to start Negotiations with Guerillas

Gustavo Petro, president-elect of Columbia, announced that he wants to declare a ceasefire in the ongoing conflict with Columbian Guerilla Groups ELN and Farc-EP to finalise a peace treaty. Since 1964, over 260,000 civilians have died in the conflict. Petro’s announcement to start negotiations with the Guerilla fighters is not the first attempt

Jul 19, 2022

Russia’s neighbours are looking towards the EU or China for protection

Christoph Bluth, University of Bradford Russian president Vladimir Putin’s increasingly explicit imperial ambitions to reconstitute a Russian empire from the ashes of the Soviet Union has raised considerable fears among former members. The only former USSR state that has fully endorsed and supported the Russian campaign against Ukraine is Belarus, where President Alexander

Jul 19, 2022

Uganda: Where Menstrual Health and the Climate Crisis Meet – Safe Girl Reusable Pads #AfricaClimateHope

Catherine Nakayemba was just starting high school when her very first menstrual cycle came. She wasn’t sure what was happening, and thought she might be sick. In the school bathroom, she used pages from a book to stop the blood from staining her school uniform. This is the experience that launched her quest

Jul 18, 2022

Time Running Out, Canada Hanging Back on Emergency Plan to Avert $20B Oil Spill Disaster

With a disabled oil supertanker in the Red Sea possibly just weeks or months away from breaking up or exploding, triggering a $20-billion ecological and humanitarian disaster, countries that could help pay for an emergency salvage plan are saying they can’t find the right budget codes to free up the funds. Many of

Jul 15, 2022

Windows Interview – Munari e Davola

In ogni Paese, discutere del sistema scolastico risulta essere complesso e quasi sempre conduce a due visioni distinte dell’organizzazione e dell’indirizzo formativo da attuare. Ospiti di questo appuntamento con Bruno Carenini, nella sua rubrica Windows Interview, sono Ottavia Munari e Andrea Davola, ricercatori della Fondazione Luigi Einaudi. La conversazione trae spunto dal libro

Jul 15, 2022

USA: Apple employees form union for the first time

In the US state of Maryland, employees at an Apple Store have voted to form a union. At the Towson store, 65 of the 110 employees voted in favour of the union. For years, Apple blocked the efforts of its employees. Now the company’s first union is being established – despite attempts at

Jul 14, 2022

Tennis star Ons Jabeur is Tunisia’s ‘minister of happiness’

Ons Jabeur of Tunisia has made tennis history at Wimbledon. Clive Brunskill/Getty Images Monia Lachheb, Université de la Manouba Ons Jabeur from Tunisia has become the first African and the first Arab woman tennis player since 1968 to reach a tennis grand slam singles final. She’s done so at the Wimbledon tennis tournament.

Jul 13, 2022

Three reasons for hope that South Sudan can find peace after 11 years of strife

South Sudan has struggled to find stability since independence. Photo by Alpeyrie/ullstein bild via Getty Images Dr J Geng Akech, University of Juba South Sudan’s nation building never really started. Two years into its hard-won independence, a civil war broke out in December 2013. This robbed the country of an opportunity to lay

Jul 12, 2022

Shinzo Abe’s killing: the history of political violence in Japan

Hugo Dobson, University of Sheffield and Kristian Magnus Hauken, University of Sheffield Our reaction upon hearing the news of the shooting of former prime minister Shinzo Abe was one of shock and incredulity in equal measure. What followed was a frenzy of trying to piece news reports and gossip together to make sense

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