By Kathy Holloway, Associate Professor, Director of the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Practice, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand’s proportion of domestically-trained nurses has fallen to just over half, making it a global outlier. We urgently need a proper workforce strategy like Australia has now introduced.
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By Yves Rees, Senior Lecturer in History, La Trobe University
Joanna McIntyre, Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, Swinburne University of Technology
On Drag Race Down Under, Michelle Visage has become the authority who determines who sashays and who stays in the fierce contest.
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Tuesday, November 19, 2024
The international community must continue to show solidarity with Ukraine, a senior UN aid official said on Tuesday, marking 1,000 days since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of the country.
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By Amnesty International
Reacting to the news that police in Tbilisi, Georgia’s capital, have violently dismantled a protesters’ tent camp, Denis Krivosheev, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, said: “The Georgian authorities must fully comply with their obligations to respect and protect the right to freedom of assembly. People have a right to peacefully […] The post Georgia: Authorities must respect the right to peaceful assembly following dismantling of protesters’ camp appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amaka Emordi, Lecturer, Political Science, Obafemi Awolowo University
Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye unexpectedly called a snap legislative election which was held on 17 November. Faye was sworn in as president in April after a tumultuous period, triggered when former president Macky Sall postponed…
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By David Gallardo-Pujol, Catedrático de Personalidad, Universitat de Barcelona
Jordi Renom Pinsach, Profesor titular Departamento de Psicología Social y Psicología Cuantitativa, Universitat de Barcelona
Laura Viñals Vilà, Coordinadora de Investigación del IDLab-UB, Universitat de Barcelona
Have you ever gazed out at the sea and felt the world become smaller? Perhaps you have swum in its waters and felt that time stood still, that the noise and chatter of the world faded away to a distant whisper, or you have marvelled as the sun slid gently beneath its horizon.
In these moments, we often feel a sense of admiration or amazement, a feeling of smallness in the face of something so immense that it leaves us speechless. Maybe this is because we are ourselves 70 % water, or because the sheer scale of…
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By Magali Bigey, Maîtresse de conférences en SIC, sémiolinguiste spécialiste de la réception de publics populaires, Laboratoire ELLIADD, Université de Franche-Comté – UBFC
What does the growing success of these provocative novels, often portraying romantic relationships tinged with violence, tell us eight years after #MeToo?
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By Scott Schieman, Professor of Sociology and Canada Research Chair, University of Toronto
The mood of Americans has been a hot topic in the news lately, especially following the recent United States presidential election. Enter the term “vibecession,” which describes the disconnect between people’s personal financial situations and the broader economy.
This disconnect, however, isn’t limited to the U.S. In fact, it may be even more pronounced…
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By Myles David Sergeant, Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University
Most people would prefer to die at home than in hospital. If dying at home could be made more feasible and well resourced, both the dying and the living would benefit.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Workers carry bags as they harvest cotton in a field in Hami in western China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, September 21, 2016. © 2016 Chinatopix via AP Photo Today, the European Union approved a law forbidding the sale in the EU of products made with forced labor, a decisive step in combatting this abusive practice and holding corporations to account. The Forced Labor Regulation (FLR) will require authorities of all EU states to ban from the EU market any products or components which have been made, in part or whole, with forced labor. It will target…
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