Panneerselvan – The Hindu A collective effort is needed to retrieve the information space For the last couple of years, Cathy O’Neil, a data scientist and author of the bookWeapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy , has been speaking…
Analysis, MIKAELA NHONDO ERSKOG – The Daily Maverick, Johannesburg Bulking military tanks and armed troops have halted the usual blustering traffic and street vending activities down Samora Machel Avenue in central Harare. Leaders of the ruling party have reportedly been…
By Pascal Laureyn PHNOM PENH, Nov 17 2017 (IPS) – The government had an almost paranoid fear of protests. A square kilometer around the Supreme Court was barricaded and off limits to the public.
By David Meyer – Fortune The richest 1% now owns more than half of all the world’s household wealth, according to analysts at Credit Suisse. And they say inequality is only going to get worse over the coming years, with millennials having a particularly tough time.
Burrowes* In a recent incident in the United States, yet another unarmed man was shot dead by police after opening his front door in response to their knock. The police were going to serve an arrest warrant on a domestic violence suspect – the man’s neighbour – but went to the…
By Ishaan Tharoor* – The Washington Post All things considered, President Trump’s lengthy five-country trip to Asia was not the total fiasco some feared it could be. The president had a chummy swing through Japan and then delivered a well-received speech before the South Korean…
By Stella Paul BONN, Germany, Nov 15 2017 (IPS) – “Five years ago, when we first started talking about including gender in the negotiations, the parties asked us, ‘Why gender?’ Today, they are asking, ‘How do we include gender?’ That’s the progress we have seen since Doha,” said…
By Baher Kamal Key facts:• 108 million boys and girls between 5 and 17 years are identified as child labourers in agricultura. • Worldwide, nearly 70.9 per cent of child labour is found in agriculture. •Agriculture is one of the most dangerous sectors in terms of rates of…
By: Siti Ruhaini Dzuhayatin* , for Strategic Review The modern world is marked by its plural and multicultural social realm, due to the rapid and massive cross-border mobility of people dating back to the Industrial Revolution, and its global expansion to the East, including…
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