The World Bank’s survey of Women, Business and the Law reports that almost 90 percent of the world’s countries still have at least one legal difference restricting women’s opportunities in 2014. Read Here – Businessweek
There are as many people in the PRC as there are in North and South America — and Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand — combined. Somebody’s forgetting India! Read Here – The Atlantic
Humans, and perhaps their pre-human ancestors, have engaged in murder and mayhem, as individuals and in groups, for hundreds of thousands of years. And, at least since the advent of recorded history, violence and politics have been intimately related. Nation-states use violence against internal and external foes. Dissidents engage in violence against states. Competing political […]
Men from the Commonwealth – and they are men – are taking over the British establishment’s positions of power. Read Here – The Spectator
The space for NGOs and civil society workers appears to be shrinking as they receive threats, several have been killed and others forced to go into hiding. There appears to be less protection for NGO workers at a time they are badly needed as the state fails to carry out basic functions such as education […]
looking beyond borders 