With Abdala, Soberana 02 and Soberana Plus, Cuba has developed three highly effective protein vaccines against Covid-19. After the third vaccination, they provide 90% protection against severe symptomatic courses. Unlike mRNA and vector vaccines, protein vaccines are cheaper and easier to produce and store. Cuba’s willingness to share knowledge of vaccine development and
Julien Théron, Sciences Po Talks between Russia and the west have failed. Moscow has described the situation in Ukraine as “intolerable” and “a matter of life or death”. The US president, Joe Biden, has predicted the Kremlin “will move in” to Ukraine. The impasse was reached when the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, insisted
Clodagh Harrington, De Montfort University and Alex Waddan, University of Leicester When Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th US president in January 2021, 51.3% of American voters heaved a sigh of relief – along with much of the world. After four tumultuous and unscripted years of Donald Trump, restoration of calm
Afza’s father had one condition if he were to allow her to return home: that she leave her child behind. A survivor of sex trafficking who became pregnant during roughly two years at a brothel, Afza was eventually found by police in 2015 and reintegrated into her family without her baby. She was
In March 2020 we experienced what felt like a power outage.. and we were alone. I had no idea if anyone would respond to these questions from a stranger.. let alone share their darkest fears.. but these are their stories. Documentary self shot by 90 participants around the world (including: Australia, Indonisia, India,
As India races to bring its entire population online, Deepa and Jaya, two girls from a working-class neighborhood in Delhi, are introduced to the internet for the first time through a learning lab at their school. Their time in the lab opens up a universe of fresh ideas, possibilities, and perspectives, and provides
Every Friday, a bunch of Barcelona kids jet through the city on their bikes before school starts – without having to watch out for cars, because: For one hour on Friday mornings, they are allowed to use the streets as bike paths. For that hour the city closes the streets completely for cars.
Domestic and Global Geopolitics The Russian Federation of the New Millennium is profoundly different from all previous “Russias”, but from each has drawn something to get to be what it is today. A Russia that is certainly daughter of her past. A past dense and rich of history, between Empire, Dictatorship of the
Politica interna e geopolitica globale La Federazione Russa del Nuovo Millennio è profondamente diversa da tutte le “Russie” precedenti, ma da ognuna ha attinto qualcosa per arrivare ad essere quello che oggi è. Una Russia, dunque, certamente figlia del suo passato. Un passato denso e ricchissimo di storia, tra Impero, Dittatura del Proletariato
Digital platforms profit from the self-exploitation and bogus self-employment of their “employees”. The EU Commission is now proposing guidelines for European countries to prevent this. The aim is to control working conditions with the aim of employing suppliers and other bogus self-employed workers. What is the problem? – Bogus self-employment and self-exploitationPrecarious working