By Sangita Swechcha
Global Voices interviewed British-Nepali Professor Surya Subedi, a scholar and peace expert, via email to gain his perspectives on the evolving role of international law in promoting peace and justice.
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By Guest Contributor
"Between 2020 and 2022, about 600,000 Tigrayans died as a result of senseless and reckless actions‚ and 2.5 million were internally displaced by the fighting."
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By Joseph Patrick Kelly, Professor of Literature and Director of Irish and Irish American Studies, College of Charleston
Conservatives defend efforts to dismantle the federal bureaucracy as tactics against tyranny, but Americans exercise their sovereignty through these civil services.
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Saturday, November 2nd 2024
Between 2006 and 2024, over 1,700 journalists have been killed around the world, and around 85 percent of the cases did not make it to court, according to a report by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
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Saturday, November 2nd 2024
Between 2006 and 2024, over 1,700 journalists have been killed around the world, and around 85 percent of the cases did not make it to court, according to a report by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Legislators attend a parliamentary session at the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye in Ankara, June 2, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo/Ali Unal (Istanbul, November 2, 2024) - Türkiye’s parliament should reject a proposed legislative amendment that seeks to expand the definition of espionage in such a vague manner that it could criminalize legitimate work by human rights defenders, journalists, and other civil society actors in the country, Human Rights Watch and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) said today. Parliament is due to vote in the coming days on a draft…
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By Mark Griffiths, Director of the International Gaming Research Unit and Professor of Behavioural Addiction, Nottingham Trent University
Paraphilias are often viewed negatively as sexual deviancy. Although some paraphilias are illegal, most are harmless when they are engaged by consenting adults.
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By Jeannette Wicks-Lim, Research Professor, Political Economy Research Institute, UMass Amherst
Jasmine Kerrissey, Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Labor Center, UMass Amherst
The federal minimum wage for tipped workers has stood at US$2.13 an hour since 1991. Back then, it amounted to half the $4.25 regular minimum wage. But Congress has failed to increase the tipped minimum while periodically raising the regular wage floor. Today, the tipped rate is less than one-third of the $7.25 federal full minimum wage.
As of October 2024, 30 states and Washington, D.C., had instituted their own, higher,…
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By Shannon Sauer-Zavala, Associate Professor of Psychology & Licensed Clinical Psychologist, University of Kentucky
Given the polarized political climate in the US, it’s hard not to be affected by the election. But there are ways to make sure stress and uncertainty don’t send you on a downward spiral.
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By Nathan Critch, Research Associate, Department of Politics, University of Manchester
Andy Westwood, Professor of Government Practice , University of Manchester
Dave Richards, Professor of Public Policy, University of Manchester
Chancellor Rachel Reeves presented Labour’s first budget in 14 years by promising to put an “end to short-termism”.
British governments typically see budgets as an opportunity to present policies providing short-term gain…
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