By Ruth Patrick, Professor in Social Policy, University of York
At the height of the pandemic, the government temporarily paused welfare conditionality, but claimants continued to seek work at just the same level as when conditionality was in place.
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By O.l. Perkins, Research Associate, King's College London
Alexandra Deprez, Research Fellow, International Climate Governance, Iddri, Sciences Po
Kate Dooley, Research Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne
Is it possible to heat the planet to dangerous levels and then cool it down later? Economic models charting the world’s path to net zero emissions say yes.
Theoretically, the cheapest way to global decarbonisation is to delay cutting emissions to reach net zero and assume it will be possible to remove huge volumes of CO₂ from the atmosphere later. As the annual UN climate…
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By Kate Pleace, Assistant Professor in Women's Health, Dublin City University
Celebrity campaigns have brought the menopause, once considered taboo, to the forefront of the media and the medical profession – but has the pendulum swung too far?
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By Eden Hoffer, PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies & Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University
Failing to deem intimate partner violence an epidemic will permit the conditions that sustain it to persist — and likely worsen. The health, safety and lives of women and children are at stake.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Emad Trabelsi (2nd-L), acting interior minister in the Libyan Government of National Unity, holds a press conference in Tripoli, August 23, 2024. © 2024 Mahmud Turkia/AFP via Getty Images During a November 6 press conference in Tripoli, the Government of National Unity’s acting interior minister, Emad Trabelsi, vowed to impose wide-ranging “morality” measures targeting women and girls in western Libya. The restrictions on clothing, social interactions, and travel would flagrantly violate the rights of Libyan women and girls, yet the prime minister and other government…
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By Amnesty International
Responding to the pan-India guidelines laid down today by the Supreme Court of India to prevent arbitrary demolition of properties in the country, Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International, said: “This landmark judgement by the Supreme Court of India should put an end to the climate of impunity around the cruel and inhuman practice of punishing […] The post India: Landmark Supreme Court judgement must serve as a turning point in hate campaign against Muslims appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
The Sierra Leonean authorities must repeal vagrancy laws without delay, following a landmark ruling by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court that the colonial-era legislation discriminates against poor people and other marginalized groups, Amnesty International said. The ruling, made on 7 November, found that Sierra Leone’s vagrancy laws – which criminalize anyone […] The post Sierra Leone: Authorities must repeal colonial vagrancy laws following historic ECOWAS ruling appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Debra Benita Shaw, Debra Benita Shaw is Reader in Cultural Theory in the School of Architecture and Visual Arts, University of East London
Samantha Harvey’s Orbital has won the 2024 Booker prize. What it so skilfully and ambitiously exposes is the human cost of space flight set against the urgency of the climate crisis.
While a typhoon of life-threatening proportions gathers across south-east Asia, six astronauts and cosmonauts hurtle around Earth on the International Space Station. Their everyday routine of tasteless food and laboratory work is in stark contrast to the awesome spectacle of the blue planet, oscillating between…
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By Emma Vardy, Senior Lecturer in Developmental Psychology, Nottingham Trent University
Faith Bowman, PhD Researcher, Nottingham Trent University
Children are not enjoying reading or reading as much in their free time as they used to, according the National Literacy Trust’s (NLT) annual survey.
More than 76,000 children and young people, aged 5 to 18-years-old, from 405 schools across the UK completed the survey. Worryingly, those surveyed reported the lowest levels of enjoyment of reading and reading daily since 2005. Only 34.6% of respondents aged 8 to 18-years-old reported reading in their…
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By Joan Mahoney, Lecturer in Law, University of Southampton
Before the 2024 presidential election, it was expected that one of the big issues that would get the female vote out for Kamala Harris would be women’s reproductive rights. This followed the 2022 “Dobbs decision” of the US Supreme Court which had effectively struck down 50 years of protection for a woman’s right to an abortion under the 1973 decision Roe v Wade.
Many people thought the presidential election would be a referendum on this issue. Donald…
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