By Tina Lowrey, Professeur de marketing, HEC Paris Business School
L.J. Shrum, Professeur de marketing, HEC Paris Business School
Research shows that many factors influence how social media can impact – positively and negatively – the wellbeing of young people. But the media and politicians often draw simpler conclusions.
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By Arnaud Van Waeyenberge, Professeur Associé en Droit, HEC Paris Business School
Certain European technical standards that come from private bodies are a source of EU law, but a recent court ruling points to the need for policymakers to adopt standards via democratic processes.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Human rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong in Beijing, China. © 2017 AP Photo “Our ideals have become clearer, and our dream is political. The Citizens’ Movement calls on everyone to act like a citizen. When [this movement] becomes stronger, China’s transformation will lead us to a positive future.” That positive future – or the courage to imagine a “beautiful China” – is now hanging by a thread, as the speaker of those words, Dr. Xu Zhiyong, has been on a hunger strike since October 4.Xu, 51, one of China’s most prominent human rights lawyers, has been wrongfully imprisoned…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A pile of shoes during the annual demonstration by NGO Humanity and Inclusion denouncing antipersonnel landmines and cluster munitions in Lyon on September 20, 2014. © 2014 Getty Images (Washington, DC, November 20, 2024) – The Biden administration’s decision to transfer internationally banned antipersonnel landmines to Ukraine risks civilian lives and rejects the most successful humanitarian disarmament treaty of the past 25 years, Human Rights Watch said today. On November 19, 2024, the Washington Post reported that US President Joe Biden had authorized…
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Wednesday, November 20, 2024
The future of childhood ‘hangs in the balance’ as three major global forces reshape children’s lives, according to UN Children’s Fund UNICEF’s flagship report released on World Children’s Day.
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By Lisa Vanhala, Professor of Political Science, UCL
“An ambitious new climate finance goal” should be the priority of every nation at the latest round of international climate negotiations in Baku, Azerbaijan. That’s according to Simon Stiell, who heads the United Nations process for negotiating an agreement to limit global heating.
Discussions are deadlocked at the start of the second week. The objective is to raise money to drive a global shift towards clean energy and ensure that…
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By Daniele Sorini, Post Doctoral Research Associate in Cosmology, Durham University
Humans may still appear even if the universe were very different. In fact, we may not live in the most likely of possible universes.
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By Daniele D'Alvia, Lecturer in Banking and Finance Law, Queen Mary University of London
Following Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, Bitcoin was one of the assets that surged in value. This was widely felt to be a response to Trump’s promise to establish a strategic Bitcoin reserve – essentially holding a large stock of the cryptocurrency as a security. On November 13, the week after Trump’s win, Bitcoin broke through the US$90,000 (£71,340) price threshold for the first time, and the value of…
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By Tarek Teba, Associate Professor in Architectural Heritage, School of Architecture, Art and Design, University of Portsmouth
The increase in costs and timescale involved in the proposed work means at least another decade before the art school is restored to its former glory.
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By Hind Elhinnawy, Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University
From Iraq to Afghanistan to the US, basic freedoms for women are being eroded as governments start rolling back existing laws.
Just a few months ago a ban on Afghan women speaking in public was the latest measure introduced by the Taliban, who took back control of the country in 2021. From August the ban included singing, reading aloud, reciting poetry and even laughing outside their homes.
The Taliban’s ministry for the propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice, which implements one of…
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