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What is a non-dom? An expert answers our questions about the tax status claimed by Rishi Sunak’s wife and other wealthy people

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 6 minutos)

It has emerged that Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s wife, Akshata Murty, claims non-domicile (or “non-dom”) tax status, meaning that she does not have to pay UK taxes on income earned elsewhere. This revelation has drawn criticism, especially in light of Sunak raising taxes for working households.

09 Abril 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Ronen Palan

Worrying insights from UN’s first-ever assessment of water security in Africa

(Tiempo de lectura: 4 - 7 minutos)

When it comes to water security – a reliable, good supply of safe water – just 29 African countries have made some progress over the past three to five years. Twenty-five have made none.

07 Abril 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Grace Oluwasanya y Duminda Perera

Sports-related sexual assaults often take place in the locker room. Thomas Barwick/Getty Images

Shame and secrecy shroud culture of sexual assault in boys’ high school sports

(Tiempo de lectura: 4 - 7 minutos)

A coat hanger. A broomstick. A pool cue.

All these objects were used in a series of sexual assaults in recent years in which the perpetrators allegedly targeted high school boys who play sports.

06 Abril 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Jamie L. Small

The start of a movement or a moment? AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez

Amazon, Starbucks and the sparking of a new American union movement

(Tiempo de lectura: 4 - 7 minutos)

April 1, 2022, may go down as a pivotal day in the history of American unions.

In a result that could reverberate in workplaces across the U.S., the independent Amazon Labor Union – first formed in 2020 by Chris Smalls, an Amazon worker fired for protesting what he saw as inadequate COVID-19 safety precautions – got the better of the previously successful anti-union efforts of the online retailer. It means that Smalls’ warehouse in Staten Island, New York, will be the first to have a unionized workforce.

04 Abril 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por John Logan

Five lessons the pandemic taught us about ending homelessness permanently

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 5 minutos)

One surprising success story to come out of the pandemic was how many countries and cities were able to significantly reduce street homelessness. Lockdowns enabled governments to treat homelessness as a public health emergency and act swiftly to accommodate and support people experiencing homelessness.

03 Abril 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Jeremy Williams

A l'entre-deux tours, le 26 avril 2017, Marine Le Pen avait créé la surprise en rendant visite aux ouvriers et employés de l'usine Whirlpool à Amiens, bastion du candidat Macron qui s'y trouvait au même moment. AFP

Le travail, ultime lieu de fabrique de la politique (et de l’abstention) ?

(Tiempo de lectura: 7 - 13 minutos)

Les derniers sondages mettent en avant une forte proportion d’abstentionnistes, près de 30 %, dès le premier tour de l’élection présidentielle. Si les travaux de sociologie électorale, notamment en France, insistent sur l’existence de « variables lourdes » de l’abstention, les relations entre la participation électorale et le travail, malgré ses mutations, sont toujours structurantes.

02 Abril 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Tristan Haute

Activists participate in a march urging Congress to pass voting rights legislation in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28, 2021. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Black Lives Matter protests are shaping how people understand racial inequality

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 6 minutos)

Considered to be the largest social justice movement since the civil rights era of the 1960s, Black Lives Matter is more than the scores of street protests organized by the social justice group that attracted hundreds of thousands of demonstrators across the world.

31 Marzo 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Jelani Ince y Zackary Dunivin

Budget 2022: Frydenberg has spent big – but on the whole, responsibly

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 5 minutos)

So good, and so unexpected, has been Australia’s economic improvement over the past three months, it has wiped one-third of the projected 2022-23 budget deficit. Or it would have, had the government not decided to give away almost half (45%) the windfall.

30 Marzo 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Peter Martin

La Cour des comptes, les comptables publics ou les préfets ont pour tâche de vérifier la conformité d'une dépense publique, mais pas son efficacité. Stéphane de Sakutin/AFP

La transparence des dépenses publiques: sujet oublié de la présidentielle 2022?

(Tiempo de lectura: 4 - 7 minutos)

À l’heure où les 12 candidats à l’élection présidentielle déclarent leur patrimoine, leurs intérêts et leurs activités), la question de la transparence des comptes, au-delà de celle de nos plus hauts élus, se pose concernant les organisations publiques.

29 Marzo 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por David Carassus

Five ways the monarchy has benefited from colonialism and slavery

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 6 minutos)

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s tour of the Caribbean for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee has been criticised over the royals’ connection to colonialism and slavery.

28 Marzo 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Laura Clancy

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Perwakilan pengemudi ojek daring yang tergabung dalam Driver Online Bergerak Jawa Tengah secara simbolis menandatangani tuntutan aksi damai dalam unjuk rasa di depan kompleks Kantor Gubernur Jawa Tengah, Semarang, Jawa Tengah, Senin (7/3/2022). Dalam aksi tersebut mereka mengajukan beberapa tuntutan kepada Pemprov Jateng diantaranya yaitu perlindungan hukum bagi pengemudi daring selaku mitra terkait kesejahteraan, keamanan, dan kenyamanan, pelibatan mitra dalam kebijakan dengan sistem aplikasi, kontrol kuota ojek daring di Jawa Tengah, kenaikan tarif minimal jasa pengantaran penumpang dan barang, serta adanya jaminan asuransi tenaga kerja dari aplikator. ANTARA FOTO/Aji Styawan/rwa

Puluhan juta pekerja informal membutuhkan kepastian jaminan sosial

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 6 minutos)

Perkembangan teknologi menjadi tantangan dan juga peluang khususnya di sektor ketenagakerjaan informal Indonesia. Munculnya perusahaan platform seperti aplikator ojek Gojek dan Grab mendorong bertumbuhnya pekerja informal berbasis kemitraan.

26 Marzo 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Pinto Buana Putra

Helping forge a post-Cold War identity for the United States. Alberto Pizzoli/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images

Madeleine Albright saw US as an ‘indispensable nation’ and NATO expansion eastward as essential

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 5 minutos)

Madeleine Albright may have not coined the phrase “indispensable nation,” but she will always be associated with the concept.

By the time she became Secretary of State in 1997, the United States had become a beached superpower. During the Cold War, its forces had been deployed across the world for the explicit purpose of deterring Soviet aggression. When the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991, so did the primary justification for America’s enormous troop presence abroad and globe-spanning web of military alliances.

25 Marzo 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Peter Harris

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks at her Senate confirmation hearing. AP Photo/Alex Brandon

Ketanji Brown Jackson’s path to Supreme Court nomination was paved by trailblazing Black women judges

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 6 minutos)

Just five women and two African Americans, both men, are among the 115 people who have served on the United States’ highest court over more than two centuries. Both of those numbers may change in 2022, with President Joe Biden’s nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, a 51-year-old Washington, D.C., native raised in Miami, to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.

24 Marzo 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Sharon D. Wright Austin

Dalam beberapa tahun terakhir, pemerintah Cina menggunakan beasiswa kuliah untuk membentuk pandangan politik para santri dan pelajar Muslim Indonesia terkait isu seperti diskriminasi terhadap minoritas Uyghur di Xinjiang, Cina. (ANTARA FOTO/Indrianto Eko Suwarso)

Bagaimana Cina menggunakan beasiswa kuliah untuk menyetir pandangan politik para santri Indonesia

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 6 minutos)

Dalam beberapa tahun terakhir, Cina semakin intens memperluas pengaruh budaya mereka di Indonesia, setelah sebelumnya gencar menanamkan pijakan ekonomi dan politiknya di negeri ini.

23 Marzo 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat

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What is a non-dom? An expert answers our questions about the tax status claimed by Rishi Sunak’s wife and other wealthy people

Worrying insights from UN’s first-ever assessment of water security in Africa

Shame and secrecy shroud culture of sexual assault in boys’ high school sports

Amazon, Starbucks and the sparking of a new American union movement

Five lessons the pandemic taught us about ending homelessness permanently

Le travail, ultime lieu de fabrique de la politique (et de l’abstention) ?

Black Lives Matter protests are shaping how people understand racial inequality

Budget 2022: Frydenberg has spent big – but on the whole, responsibly

La transparence des dépenses publiques: sujet oublié de la présidentielle 2022?

Five ways the monarchy has benefited from colonialism and slavery

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Puluhan juta pekerja informal membutuhkan kepastian jaminan sosial

Madeleine Albright saw US as an ‘indispensable nation’ and NATO expansion eastward as essential

Ketanji Brown Jackson’s path to Supreme Court nomination was paved by trailblazing Black women judges

Bagaimana Cina menggunakan beasiswa kuliah untuk menyetir pandangan politik para santri Indonesia

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