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High-profile attacks on women in India - like the 2012 gang rape of a 23-year-old student in Delhi who later died from her injuries - have caused public outrage in recent years and spurred strict laws aimed at reducing sexual violence. But India continues to be one of the world's most dangerous places for women. Nisha Bellinger, who studies diversity in government, believes that getting more women into politics could help India address this deeply entrenched social problem.
Turkey's currency, the lira, is losing value against foreign currencies and the country is in the grips of its worst economic crisis since Recep Tayyip Erdoğan became president in 2014. Gary M. Grossman argues that this economic challenge is, in fact, a symptom of a much larger problem for Erdoğan and Turkey.
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Public outrage followed the 2012 gang rape of a 23-year-old woman on a bus in Delhi, India. Here, demonstrators call for justice at the one-year anniversary of the incident.
Reuters/Anindito Mukherjee
Nisha Bellinger, Boise State University
India is the most dangerous country for women in 2018, according to a new survey. Putting more women in government is a necessary first step in preventing rape and better protecting abuse survivors.
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Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
AP/Presidential Press Service pool photo
Gary M. Grossman, Arizona State University
The financial crisis provoked by the lira's fall isn't the true drama in Turkey. The real drama is a democratic transformation threatens the increasingly authoritarian president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
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Politics + Society
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David Mednicoff, University of Massachusetts Amherst
With the Trump Administration's abandonment of support for democracy and civil rights abroad, Middle Easterners may well believe that the U.S. cares little for their well-being and their very lives.
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David E Kiwuwa, University of Nottingham
In many ways US-Kenya relations is in uncharted territory.
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Gabrielle Lynch, University of Warwick
As transitional justice efforts have become more widespread, their mandates have also become increasingly ambitious.
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Science + Technology
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Dr Susan Wilbraham, University of Cumbria; Elizabeth Caldwell, University of Huddersfield
New research shows children's images of scientists are all too often male.
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Tim Logan, Texas A&M University
A weather expert explains where petrichor – that pleasant, earthy scent that accompanies a storm's first raindrops – comes from.
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Arts + Culture
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Adam de Paor-Evans, University of Central Lancashire
In a time of an overwhelming amount of music available, discerning consumers have to be even more strategic.
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