The way societies are governed seems to have influenced how they’ve fared in terms of excess deaths during the pandemic.
In some global fishing communities, women influence decisions, resulting in stronger claims to area-based fishing rights, improved economic returns and greater women’s empowerment.
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Creating opportunities to meaningfully engage women in governance and decision-making is necessary to achieve gender equality in small-scale fisheries.
Eight presidential candidates on stage during Kenya’s first presidential debate in 2013.
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New Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has pledged to ‘change the way’ we do politics and ‘rebuild respect’. An expert on political participation explains what to do next.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford attends a photo opportunity on a construction site in Brampton as he kicks off his re-election campaign on May 4, 2022.
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Looking back on Ford’s four years in power reveals four themes in his approach to governance — and what the next four years might have in store if he wins again.
Street traders continue to be harassed by municipal officials.
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Street traders in South Africa play a significant role in the country’s economic and social development and deserve to be protected in terms of the Constitution.
The farmers’ predicament can’t be viewed in isolation and must be understood within the context of global processes beyond their control.
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Groundwater has the potential to support broad economic, humanitarian and social development in sub-Saharan Africa, as it has in other regions globally.
As one of the UK’s 11 core cities, Nottingham lags behind its European counterparts.
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If the UK government is serious about levelling up the country, granting its second-tier cities more political and financial independence would be a good place to start.
Corruption must be made a high-risk enterprise so that when offenders are caught, the laws will be enforced
Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah speaks after submitting his candidacy papers for the presidential election last November. The poll was postponed.
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The biggest challenge is that the government does not have a monopoly over the legitimate use of force.
Trucks lining outside a container yard in Cape Town, South Africa. Infrastructure backlogs are a threat to food exports.
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The politically ambitious Sisulu’s most recent campaigning grenade came in her cynical attack on the country’s constitution and judiciary.
South Africa has an impressive record of marine biological research in protected areas, but the country needs to pay greater attention to the human aspects.
Doug Lang
Judy Mann-Lang, Oceanographic Research Institute (South African Association for Marine Biological Research); Bruce Quintin Mann, Oceanographic Research Institute (South African Association for Marine Biological Research) e George Branch, University of Cape Town
The social, ecological and governance objectives of marine protected areas need to be understood to enhance benefits to both people and the environment.