One of the most common reactions during a crisis is the urge to help others. Here a health-care worker watches as the first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are delivered to a long-term care facility in Montréal.
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While the world is dealing with the biggest health emergency in more than a century, the way people have reacted to the crisis is familiar and predictable.
Living on a bridging visa is a form of migration limbo as the Department of Home Affairs does not disclose how long any individual case may take to process.
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Associating all bridging visas with 'scammers' and 'illegal migrants' misses the bigger picture of the role bridging visas play in our changing immigration regime.
Mining is a highly destructive endeavour towards our environment but demand for gems and minerals is non-stop; early colonial relationships continue to define these industries.
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Much of the devastation of our globe's natural resources traces its origins to early colonialism. These relationships continue to define the extraction of resources that severely impact ecosystems.
The way we talk about this problem is working against us.
Research calls for global regulation of dental tourism - to prevent poor working conditions for local populations serving a wealth North American elite.
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Thousands of North Americans travel to Mexico to eat, drink, shop and get cheap and fast dental care. Meanwhile, local populations suffer racism, poor working conditions and inadequate health care.
Ride-hailing app drivers – partners or exploited labour?
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New research offers a picture of what it's like to work in Australia illegally. Many workers are exploited, some come knowing they have no work rights, others may be unaware they're working illegally.
A new report finds that 35% of the fish stocks assessed in the Western Indian Ocean are fully exploited and 28% are over-exploited.
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Since 2015, Australia has no regulations specifically for reality television. With controversy swirling around Channel Nine's 'The Briefcase', what exactly is allowed?
Young people understand the value of education but find fees prohibitively high in a context of widespread unemployment and low incomes.
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The huge problem of youth unemployment in South Africa appears to be getting worse. New research will hopefully amplify their voices and inform more realistic interventions to combat the monster.
Masked sex workers lead a march to mark International Sex Workers’ Rights Day.
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Sex workers in South Africa are all potential criminals due to the country's regressive laws. But their status may change soon, making South Africa the first African country to decriminalise sex work.
Horror director Wes Craven was perhaps best known for his Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream series.
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Safia Mahomed, University of the Witwatersrand and Ian Sanne, University of the Witwatersrand
Research should not only benefit the researchers. People who participate in research should also be compensated for the contributions.
Due to the lack of reliable statistics surrounding human trafficking, there is no real scope of how large the problem really is, making it more difficult to police.
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Human trafficking is a major source of misery around the world. The absence of reliable statistics to determine its enormity has led to inflated guesstimates that harm efforts to combat the scourge.
Associate Professor and Director of the Clinical HIV Research Unit at the Department of Medicine in the Faculty of Health Science, University of the Witwatersrand