Elisa Loncon, a Mapuche academic, has been elected president of the Constitutional Convention which will rewrite Chile’s constitution.
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Elisa Loncon has pledged to prioritise indigenous and women’s rights as part of the constitutional reform.
Incarceration of asylum seekers in offshore camps would be in breach of UK’s responsibilities under international human rights conventions.
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Priti Patel’s plan to process asylum seekers offshore is at odds with the UK’s responsibilities under international human rights conventions.
An ill-starred administration.
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But academics also had a pretty low opinion of Boris Johnson’s performance as PM so far.
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People have denied germ theory since the moment it was born in the late 19th century.
Une approche moins militarisée pourrait aboutir à une plus grande sécurité dans la région.
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La surmilitarisation de la crise dans la région du Sahel n'a guère contribué à sa stabilité.
A less militarised approach could lead to greater security in the region.
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The over-militarisation of the crisis across the Sahel region has done little to foster stability.
L’unique porte-avions chinois, le Liaoning, arrive dans les eaux de Hongkong le 7 juillet 2017.
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La Chine rechigne à se plier aux dispositions du droit international de la mer, pour des raisons qui tiennent en partie à son histoire.
Silenced once again? Aung San Suu Kyi and her pro-democracy colleagues from the NLD.
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Myanmar’s constitution provides for an independent legal system. In practice it is anything but.
Jair Bolsonaro’s administration is profoundly militarised.
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Plus, what the study of 700-year old garbage is revealing about who lived in Islamic Andalusia. Listen to episode 20 of The Conversation Weekly.
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The idea of friendship means very different things in Chinese and Euro-American traditions.
Une scientifique habillée d'une combinaison pressurisée au Laboratoire national de microbiologie de Winnipeg.
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Une grande partie de la recherche scientifique sur les coronavirus est menée dans des pays qui ne contrôlent pas la recherche à double usage ou les expériences de gain de fonction.
A virologist stands between rows of cages for laboratory animals in the new high security laboratory (biosafety level 4) at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, Germany.
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A large proportion of scientific research on coronaviruses is carried out in countries with no oversight of experiments designed to make pathogens more deadly.
Media coverage of elderly deaths throughout the pandemic revealed the deep-seated ageism that exists in the UK.
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Even though the media exposed the negligence that led to so many elderly deaths, it continues to portray old people as faceless and voiceless, contributing to the insidious spread of ageism.
Cameron and Osborne: architects of austerity.
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The idea that funding cuts were inevitable and necessary is pervasive.
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Some national economies will return to their pre-COVID levels this year, others not until 2025. What does this imbalance mean for the global economy?
A convoy of Malian armed forces escorts the vehicle of the country’s coup leader as he returns from a recent ECOWAS summit where Mali was suspended.
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Mali’s state decay must be halted before it collapses: here are five areas that need attention.
Under 1% of people surveyed made a connection between culture wars and the removal of statues.
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The public is much less extreme in its views than you’d suspect
Soldiers patrol the Nigerian border with Niger Republic as both countries battle the Boko Haram insurgency.
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Islamic State West Africa Province appears to be consolidating its dominance in the region. This means Nigeria and other countries in the Sahel region have a lot more to be worried about.
This device will provide results in a matter of minutes – while regular blood test results could take days or weeks.
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Blood samples help doctors know whether a treatment is effective or not – and this device can provide this information almost instantly.
Protesters gather in Cambridge to demand that AstraZeneca shares blueprints for its COVID-19 vaccine.
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Much remains to be resolved before the waiver is translated into increased vaccine supply.