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Robots have been part of human culture for a hundred years. How can we ensure that they support — rather than supplant — humans over the next hundred? The word ‘robot’ entered the modern lexicon a hundred years ago this year with the première at Prague’s National Theatre of Karel Čapek’s play R.U.R. Set on […]
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Royal Dutch Shell is in the dock, at least in The Netherlands. The historic decision by The Hague District Court found that the Shell group’s inaction on climate change was a threat to human rights in The Netherlands. The Court decided that Royal Dutch Shell (RDS), as the parent company, had a best efforts obligation […]
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Before Covid-19 threw our global systems into chaos, an intense and urgent public debate focused on several other international concerns. In 2020, data from Brazil’s national space research institute, INPE, showed that 830 square kilometers of rainforest was cleared in the “Legal Amazon,” Earth’s largest rainforest, during the month of May 2020 alone, bringing the […]
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Government data suggests that at least 8663 thousand people (possibly triple that number) have been killed by police and other groups in the Philippines during President Duterte’s so-called “war on drugs”. Now, in one of her last official acts before she ends her term on Tuesday, the International Criminal Court’s Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, has asked […]
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Many governments claim that the way out of the COVID-19 pandemic is through vaccines. But this can only be partly true because of two inherently complicated and confounding factors: (i) the endless ingenuity of nature to adapt itself to changing circumstances, and (ii) the behaviours and beliefs of people themselves. Before COVID-19, the fastest that […]
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What if fines could be adjusted not only to the severity of the offense, but also to the income of the offender? What if the rich pay a higher fine than the poor for the same offense? This is not just a thought experiment but a real model, which was first introduced in Finland 100 […]
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During the 1990s, in Egypt, Professor Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd was prosecuted by a group of attorneys and condemned by two courts of the Egyptian national judicial system to be divorced from his wife based on a Civil Code provision forbidding a Muslim woman to marry a non-Muslim man and a literalist reading of the […]
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Myanmar’s transition after a new civilianized government emerged in 2011 came to excite investors and development practitioners from across the world. Economic capital Yangon circa 2014 was a town where new met old. Small trendy cafés and hidden bars were popping up in the most unexpected locations. Young and eager development practitioners were confident about […]
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