By Matt Garrow, Editorial Web Developer
Matthew Hall, Deputy Business & Economy Editor
Principles could centre on helping members manage their money in retirement, ensuring fairness across the system, and requiring funds to maintain an active duty of care to members.
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By Tessa Toumbourou, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Environmental Social Science, The University of Melbourne
Andrea Rawluk, Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
Gutomo Bayu Aji, Peneliti Bidang Kependudukan, Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional (BRIN)
Ilmiawan Auwalin, Associate lecturer, Universitas Airlangga
Lilis Mulyani, Researcher, Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional (BRIN)
Rumayya, Dosen di Departemen Ilmu Ekonomi, Universitas Airlangga
Yulia Indrawati Sari, Dosen Hubungan Internasional Universitas Katolik Parahyangan, Universitas Katolik Parahyangan
Our analysis of Indonesia’s social forestry permits shows that women remain underrepresented in forest management bodies despite efforts to boost their presence, leaving them out of decisions about their forests.
Social forestry redistributes forest management rights to local communities to advance sustainability and local livelihoods. In 2021, the country revised its social forestry regulations to allow one family representative to participate in social forestry management bodies, ‘giving equal opportunity…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Human rights defender Soltan Achilova, forcibly held in an infectious disease hospital in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. November 20, 2024. © 2024 Private Turkmenistan’s authorities have gone to extreme lengths to stop veteran human rights defender, Soltan Achilova, from traveling abroad. Achilova, 75, was scheduled to travel to Geneva for events hosted by the Martin Ennals Foundation, honoring her achievements. But at 6:30 a.m. on Wednesday, the morning of her planned departure, four men in laboratory coats showed up at her apartment in Ashgabat, the country’s capital,…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image The concept art for the Guan Yin statue, Songkhla, Thailand. © 2024 Prachatai (Bangkok) – Separatist insurgents in southern Thailand carried out an unlawful grenade attack against civilians on November 20, 2024, at the construction site of a 136-meter-high statue of a Chinese goddess in Songkhla province, Human Rights Watch said today. This was the first insurgent attack in five years against a non-Islamic religious site.The insurgents fired grenades at about 6:10 a.m. into the construction site of the world’s tallest Guanyin (Chinese goddess of mercy) statue, in…
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Wednesday, November 20, 2024
England football legend David Beckham has been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for almost two decades. On this year’s World Children’s Day, marked annually on 20 November, we looked back on how the sporting icon has raised awareness over crucial issues such as child marriage, bullying and violence.
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By Zita Zage
The EU is looking to offer an alternative to China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). But will it's Global Gateway Strategy be a boon for the continent or perpetuate colonial patterns?
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By Diane-Laure Arjaliès, Assistant Professor, Ivey Business School, Western University
Tima Bansal, Canada Research Chair in Business Sustainability, Western University
Nature-based solutions are a cost-effective means of addressing climate instability, and governments already have all the tools they need to help get these projects off the ground.
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By Daphné Hommery-Boucher, Doctorante en éducation, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Mariève Blanchet, Professeure en sciences de l’activité physique et en développement moteur, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Children are born to play!
And yet, despite our best efforts, many parents and professionals find that some children are not motivated to get moving and prefer watching television instead. Among the potential…
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By Steven Ratuva, Director, Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Canterbury
The real beneficiaries of climate finance for small island nations are private contractors brought in to build resilient infrastructure. There are now calls for a fairer money dispersal system.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A member of the opposition Karenni Nationalities Defence Force holds antipersonnel mines planted by the Myanmar military and removed during demining operations near Pekon township, July 11, 2023. © 2023 STR/AFP via Getty Images (Bangkok) – Myanmar’s military forces are increasingly using banned antipersonnel landmines that indiscriminately kill and injure people across the country, Human Rights Watch said today. Over the past year, fighting between the junta military and alliances of opposition and ethnic armed groups has spiked nationwide. Landmine casualties…
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