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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dalam beberapa tahun terakhir, Cina semakin intens memperluas pengaruh budaya mereka di Indonesia, setelah sebelumnya gencar menanamkan pijakan ekonomi dan politiknya di negeri ini.
Gun and ammunition sales in the U.S. have skyrocketed in recent years. And although it may come as a surprise, this trend has supported conservation activities.
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