By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Bangladesh Federation of Worker Solidarity activists hold a rally in Dhaka on May 7, 2023 to mark ten years since the Rana Plaza building collapse that killed more than 1,130 people. © 2023 Mamunur Rashid/NurPhoto via AP Twelve years ago this April, the Rana Plaza factory building in Bangladesh collapsed, killing more than 1,100 garment workers and injuring more than 2,000 in one of the largest workplace disasters in modern history.The Rana Plaza tragedy fueled a global movement calling for mandatory human rights rules for businesses, which ultimately led the…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A Tokyo public high school corridor. © 2023 Bede Sheppard / Human Rights Watch Japan’s parliament, the Diet, voted this week to make public high school free for all children. Tuition fees had been abolished in 2010, but then reinstated in 2013.The new measure, approved in the budget, will expand equal opportunity in education, and should increase education access and certainty for children of parents with unstable incomes or from immigrant and other marginalized backgrounds who sometimes struggle with the bureaucracy of tuition subsidies.The initiative was pushed…
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By Hong Kong Free Press
"Whynot is down to earth. It understands what is actually happening in China. It tends to tell the stories of individual people and their fates. These stories will be lost."
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By Irvin Kinnes, Associate Professor of Criminology, University of Cape Town
The story is told from the inner sanctum of the state security apparatus that fought an urban terror campaign in South Africa between 1998 and 2002.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Kos Samaras, a director of the political consultancy firm Redbridge and a former Labor Party official joins to talk about the polls and the parties prospects.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Labor will urge the Fair Work Commission to increase both award and minimum wages in a written submission to their Annual Wage Review.
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By Felix Arndt, Professor and John F. Wood Chair in Entrepreneurship, University of Guelph
Barak Aharonson, Professor, Chair of Innovation Management, University of Guelph
The notion of a friendly U.S.–Canada merger invites reflection since both countries are economically interlocked and geographically co-located, though culturally distinct.
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By Michael J. Armstrong, Associate Professor, Operations Research, Brock University
Increased usage among women and older adults during 2019-2023 seemed related more to falling prices than to the expanding number of stores.
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By David Smith, Associate Professor in American Politics and Foreign Policy, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
Donald Trump’s aggressive foreign policy is being cast as necessary for national security. This ensures he’ll encounter little pushback from Congress or the courts.
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By Jessica Holloway, Senior Research DECRA Fellow, Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education, Australian Catholic University
Peter Dutton wants to ensure schools are not ‘guided into some sort of an agenda that’s come out of universities’. Who creates the ‘map’ of what kids learn?
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