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Next year an estimated 1.2m refugees will be in need of new homes. With refugee resettlement a politically charged issue in the US and Europe, countries in Latin America are being asked to accept more. A group of 70 Syrian refugees are set to arrive in Chile from Lebanon in October. The region has a history of welcoming refugees, but as Marcia Vera Espinoza explains, it hasn’t always gone smoothly. At issue is the quality of resettlement.
Kenya has entered uncharted political territory. A further twist in the protracted presidential election process was triggered this week when Raila Odinga, whose Supreme Court challenge led to the original poll being nullified, announced he wouldn’t participate in the upcoming rescheduled election. Dominic Burbidge explains why this is a setback for democracy in the country.
In Latin America millions of women’s lives are at risk because 75% of all abortions are performed illegally. This trend is worrying but unsurprising given that abortions are banned in six countries in the region. Larissa Arroyo Navarrete sets out why, in her view, there’s a clear link in Latin America between the state of a country’s democracy and the reproductive rights of its female citizens.
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A Nepalese political refugee in Brazil in 2013.
Sebastiao Moreira/EPA
Marcia Vera Espinoza, University of Sheffield
The region has welcomed resettled refugees for a few decades, but it has not always gone smoothly.
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Health + Medicine
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Patricia McGettigan, Queen Mary University of London; Allyson Pollock, Newcastle University
India's laissez-faire attitude to drug regulation is a serious threat to global efforts to tackle antimicrobial resistance.
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Sabine Braat, University of Melbourne; Elaine Mary Pascoe, The University of Queensland; Katherine J Lee, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute; Laurent Billot, UNSW
Only around 10% of new drugs in development make it onto the market. A drug needs to go through animal trials, and then four phases of human trials to be deemed suitable for use in patients.
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Adele Lafrance, Laurentian University
A new psychological intervention can help any parents - even those crippled by fear and self-blame - to become powerful recovery coaches to children with eating disorders.
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Politics + Society
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Larissa Arroyo Navarrete, University of Costa Rica
Seventy-five percent of all abortions in Latin America are illicit. In Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador, where abortion is totally illegal, the bans correlate with a generalized failure of the rule of law.
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Dominic Burbidge, University of Oxford
Kenya’s upcoming poll will continue despite opposition leader Raila Odinga's decision to exit lawful processes prematurely. This will mean Kenyatta will likely win his second term in a row.
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Business + Economy
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Vasilis Kostakis, Harvard University; Jose Ramos, Victoria University
Globally designed products which are then locally manufactured could lead to sustainable and inclusive forms of production and consumption.
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