'Historical justice': Dutch PM makes formal apology to Moluccans

Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten Sunday issued a formal state apology to members of the Moluccan community for their decades-long mistreatment by the Netherlands after Indonesia won independence from…

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Anand Menon: “The EU referendum gave us an opportunity to improve people’s lives and we failed”

In an interview with Stuart Brown, Anand Menon discusses why the Brexit referendum was a missed opportunity to change society for the better.

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Introduction: Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI

This essay introduces the themed cluster of articles, ‘Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI’. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in large language models capable of producing c....

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Is shared experience necessary to act in solidarity?

For those seeking to drive progressive change, might questioning one's own assumptions be a good place to start? Campaigner Anthea Lawson explores.

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Resources

Using and valuing resources is a vital component of human life. Yet as much as resources such as water, land, or fuel contribute to the flourishing of communities, they also constitute objects of cont...

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Macron says France must address issue of reparations for its role in slave trade

French president’s use of term comes as demand grows for formal discussion on addressing legacies of enslavement

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The West only discovers property rights when the landowners are white

Zimbabwe is compensating European farmers. The original dispossession goes unrecognised.

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Ahead of papal visit, Spain pushes forward with reparations for church sex abuse victims

Spain is addressing sexual abuse within the Catholic Church with a new reparations program. Victims like Paula Alonso-Pimentel, who was abused by a priest over 50 years ago, can now seek compensation.

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Planetary health

The concept of ‘planetary health’ asks how human health and disease relate to the environment and to other species on a planetary scale. Cutting across scales, it allows us to think of human health an...

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WHO raises risk of Ebola outbreak in Congo to 'very high' at national level

The World Health Organization has raised the risk of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola turning into a national outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo to "very high".

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To Save the Deep Sea, We Need Fewer Batteries - Science Politics

Instead of extracting critical minerals from the seafloor to fuel batteries, we could reduce, reuse, and recycle batteries we already have.

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Lectures — REPAIR

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Civil Society Organizations Ratchet Up the Pressure in The Negotiations of the Pathogen Access Benefit Sharing System

Newsletter Edition #155 [Treaty Talks] Readers, What is symphony to some, is cacophony to others. The negotiations on the Pathogen Access Benefit Sharing Mechanisms have registered intense activity...

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Double-feature REPAIR lecture on climate reparations — REPAIR

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Humans Are Wonderfully Varied. Scholars Shouldn’t Let the Government Say Otherwise. - Science Politics

Academics have a responsibility to speak up when misrepresented scientific work about race, sex, and gender shapes policy.

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Why Not for Black People?

The United States government has in fact recompensed injured groups in the past. So why won’t it do it for Black Americans?

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Rachel Nolan · The Grandson of Estela: Las Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo

Week​ after week, year after year, members of the collective formed in 1977, during the Argentine military...

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Cuba signals possible compensation for seized U.S. properties, but Cuban Americans remain skeptical

Havana may pay billions in claims tied to properties seized after the 1959 revolution — but questions remain over who qualifies and whether payments would ever materialize.

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Global Health Financing Needs a Reset

Bertrand Badré & Johanna Benesty propose ways to rethink aid, as dependence on a handful of budget-cutting donors threatens hard-won gains.

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Britain’s international aid cuts have failed. It’s time to change course

Opinion: A systematic analysis of the U.K.'s decision to slash its aid budget one year on shows that none of the original justifications for the cuts stand up to scrutiny.

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Violent and non-violent death tolls for the Gaza conflict: new primary evidence from a population-representative field survey

This first independent population survey of mortality in the Gaza Strip shows that violent deaths have substantially exceeded official figures whereas the demographic composition of casualties aligns ...

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Relooted: the South African video game where players take back artefacts from western museums

Creators say they’re offering Africans a ‘hopeful, utopian feeling’ of retrieving objects looted by colonial armies

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UK academia’s presence on X is reaching a tipping point - LSE Impact

Data collected on UK universities’ use of social media shows academic engagement with X is at a tipping point with more institutions off the platform than on.

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Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology

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AI, Accountability, and Civilian Harm

Mae Thompson speaks with Prof Luke Moffett, Dr Jessica Dorsey, and Chris Rogers about how artificial intelligence is already reshaping military decision making and what that means for civilian harm, a...

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