Category: World

For years, we’ve been told a familiar story: social scientists such as economists, management scholars, sociologists, talk and the public shrugs. The claim goes that people don’t find our work interesting, that our expertise is fuzzy compared with “hard” sciences, and that journalists and readers will always prefer the crisp authority of practitioners such as […]

Farmland biodiversity plays a crucial role in maintaining healthy ecosystems and productive agricultural landscapes. Yet across Europe, farmland birds – key indicators of environmental health – have suffered sharp declines as farming has intensified. As they pass over the fields of Brandenburg in eastern Germany, two satellites are doing work that an army of ornithologists never […]

Thank you, Mr President, I deliver this statement on behalf of the Sudan Core Group: consisting of Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, and the UK. Mr President, as we heard from so many during the Urgent Debate last week, the imminent risk of large-scale atrocities in and around El Obeid demands our attention. Escalating drone […]

Thank you, Mr President, I deliver this statement on behalf of the Sudan Core Group: consisting of Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, and the UK. Mr President, as we heard from so many during the Urgent Debate last week, the imminent risk of large-scale atrocities in and around El Obeid demands our attention. Escalating drone […]

As the US celebrated its 250th anniversary, Pope Leo XIV decided instead to visit the Sicilian island of Lampedusa. Closer to Africa geographically than to Italy, the island is known as a place of sbarchi (sea landings) for thousands immigrants and asylum seekers journeying from Africa to Europe, and a place where thousands of others […]

A fragile economy, four decades of war, 2.7 million returnees, worsening climate shocks and declining women’s participation are increasing pressure on livelihoods and services, according to the latest socioeconomic review by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) office in Afghanistan. “In Afghanistan, crises rarely happen one at a time,” said UNDP chief Alexander De Croo, who […]

The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division filed a proposed settlement today to resolve the United States’ claims against Willow Bridge Property Company LLC, as part of its ongoing enforcement action in the Middle District of North Carolina against algorithmic coordination, the use of competitors’ competitively sensitive data, and other anticompetitive practices in rental markets across the […]

UN teams in Gaza continued to collect food and fuel from the Kerem Shalom crossing over the weekend, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told journalists in New York.  He explained, however, that what humanitarians and the private sector can bring in is limited because all other crossings remain closed for cargo while restrictions on specific types of supplies remain in place.  Drop in aid volume  “Data from the UN […]

“We and our partners are continuing to scale up assistance to impacted people by the earthquakes, in coordination with the Government,” UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told reporters in New York on Monday. The two earthquakes of magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5, struck the north-central region of Venezuela on 24 June, just 39 seconds apart. A first […]

British prime minister Keir Starmer has apologised in the House of Commons for historical forced adoptions in England. Present in the gallery were mothers and adult adoptees directly affected by the practice. In his apology Starmer praised their courage and resilience in steadfastly campaigning for truth and justice, and described what they faced as “a […]