By Jonathan Gay, Assistant Professor of Accountancy, University of Mississippi
It may seem natural to use phrases like ‘ambitious’ or ‘think outside the box’ in job descriptions. Here’s when and why recruiters should rethink their approach.
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By Betsy Sinclair, Professor and Chair of Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis
The more Americans isolate themselves from people in the other political party, the more stereotypes take over. In turn, that pushes people to isolate even more.
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By Chen Reis, Associate Clinical Professor, Director, Humanitarian Assistance Program, & Director, Human Rights MA, University of Denver
Maryam Z. Deloffre, Associate Professor of International Affairs, George Washington University
More than 305 million people require lifesaving humanitarian aid today. Most of them live in areas wracked by conflict, such as Sudan, Gaza, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
By many estimates, there is more need than ever for this assistance – and the need is growing. But humanitarian funding, which is primarily…
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By Emma Hammarlund, Associate Professor, Geobiology, Lund University
Imagine a world where the oxygen you need changes dramatically between day and night. Your world shifts from being rich in oxygen (oxic) in the day, so you have energy to hunt for food, to suffocatingly oxygen-free (anoxic) at night, which slows you down.
Now, picture early animals trying to survive in such an extreme environment. This was the reality for early animal life in oceans and seas about half a billion years ago. This was also the time when animal diversity boomed, in what is known as the “Cambrian…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Kherson Children’s House, an orphanage from which Russian forces allegedly took 49 children in Kherson, Ukraine, November 27, 2022. © 2022 Chris McGrath/Getty Images The Trump administration has jeopardized efforts to find thousands of Ukrainian children illegally deported to Russia and Belarus, and in doing so, may have compromised evidence of war crimes by Russian officials.After the US State Department funded Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab in 2022 to work on Ukraine, the lab exposed the scope of Russian deportation of children from occupied…
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By Oiwan Lam
The China mega-embassy plan was blocked by Tower Hamlets Borough Council over public security concerns. But the UK Labour Government overrode the decision, enraging rights groups.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Relatives of the victims of the deadly 2020 Beirut blast hold portraits of their loved ones on the fourth anniversary of the blast, August 4, 2024. © 2024 AP Photo / Hussein (Beirut) – Lebanon’s new government should take all necessary measures to strengthen judicial independence and ensure that the investigation into the August 2020 Beirut port explosion can proceed without undue interference or obstruction, survivors and families of Beirut port blast victims and 18 rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch, said today. The groups and individuals sent a…
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By Alan Renwick, Professor of Agricultural Economics, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Since the return to power of US President Donald Trump, tariffs have barely left the front pages.
While the on-off-on tariff sagas have dominated the headlines, a paper released this week by the government’s Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) has highlighted other barriers. These non-tariff measures could actually be having a greater impact in terms of preventing trade.
The report says these non-tariff measures are equivalent…
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By Rob Nicholls, Senior Research Associate in Media and Communications, University of Sydney
As the United States recalibrates its trade policies to combat what the Trump administration sees as “unfair” treatment by other countries, two significant industries have complained to US regulators about their treatment in Australia.
The tech industry – particularly Big Tech platforms such as Google and Meta – says it is being “coerced” into…
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By Richard Baka, Honorary Professor, School of Kinesiology, Western University, London, Canada; Adjunct Fellow, Olympic Scholar and Co-Director of the Olympic and Paralympic Research Centre, Institute for Health and Sport, Victoria University
Rob Hess, Associate Professor, College of Sport and Exercise Science, Victoria University
Tracy Taylor, Adjunct professor of sports management, Victoria University
In a surprisingly emphatic result, 41-year-old Kirsty Coventry, Zimbabwe’s Sport Minister, was selected as the new president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at its 144th session in Greece.
Coventry is the first woman, the first African, and the youngest person ever to take on the role.
So how did she rise to this position, and what should sports…
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