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In 2017, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, issued a report clarifying that protection orders, which aim to provide immediate relief and protection to a survivor of domestic violence, are part of a State’s due diligence obligation to combat violence against women. Protection orders, which can be civil […]

There’s no great way to say, “I’m sorry for persecuting you because of your sexuality,” but putting someone on the national currency is a good start. Mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing was chosen to grace Britain’s new £50 note. Turing’s advancements in the field of computers were overshadowed by the treatment he received because […]

Plusieurs méthodes différentes peuvent être utilisées pour recueillir des informations. Le point de départ est le plus souvent l’Internet. Certaines personnes vont même à la bibliothèque. Dans la plupart des cas, l’objectif est de repérer des informations qui ont déjà été recueillies par d'autres personnes. Cependant, il arrive aussi que les informations requises ne soient […]

The decision by the current government of Ecuador to revoke Julian Assange’s political asylum and hand him over to British police has paved the way for the WikiLeaks founder to be extradited to the US, an intention that was confirmed in June 2019 by Downing Street. However, this decision is not unrelated to recent events […]

I meet up with Alexey Gusev, the grandson of a victim of Stalin’s Terror, in a park in front of Kyiv’s Polytechnic Institute, just outside the city centre. Gusev, a heating and ventilation engineer, is well-prepared for our meeting – he sent me a short biography, complete with photographs, of his grandmother beforehand. In 1938, […]

Click:A32100-1 When the USSR collapsed, the issue of economic planning seemed to be settled once and for all. In the struggle between the market and the plan, the former had won a decisive victory. Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin wall, the verdict is not so obvious anymore. Throughout the world, academic and […]

Click:NBA live zhibo Saudi women could soon be allowed to travel the world freely. Saudi Arabia may ease laws requiring women to seek consent from their “male guardian” before travelling internationally, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.  The country maintains a male guardianship system that requires women of all ages to obtain the consent of a designated […]

Audiences enjoying Wimbledon this summer might not have noticed this small but important change to how female tennis players are referred to by umpires.  Previously the umpire calling results would say “game Miss… “or game Mrs…” throughout each set, rather than just saying their last name as with men for example, “game, Federer”.    As […]

Jeremy Hunt’s pitch to the Tory faithful appears to be that he’s the “serious” one: the earnest ex-head boy with a grasp of detail and an ability to get things done. After all, he tells us, he’s the man who “saved the NHS”. Even the liberal media repeats these ideas. The New Statesman is impressed […]

Women in the U.S. are fighting against restrictive abortion bans, yet women in other countries have been living with the consequences of restrictive abortion bans for decades. Abortion for any reason has been illegal in El Salvador since 1997. It’s one of six countries that has a total abortion ban, but El Salvador is special […]