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Just weeks after Australia won a seat on the UN Human Rights Council, the UN harshly criticised the country’s own failures on human rights. The detention of refugees on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea was one sore point. The UN “urged Australia to end offshore processing and bring the men on Manus to Australia or another safe country,” write Anna Cody and Maria Nawaz of Australia’s University of New South Wales. But treatment of refugees wasn’t the whole story. The UN Human Rights Committee also found several other reasons to slam Australia’s human rights
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The UN committee urged Australia to end offshore processing and bring the men on Manus to Australia or another safe country.
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Anna Cody, UNSW; Maria Nawaz, UNSW
The UN report findings show that concerns far outweigh any improvements in Australia's human rights record.
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Health + Medicine
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Shirin Ashraf, University of Glasgow; Connor Bamford, University of Glasgow
Cousin of the Ebola virus, Marburg has the potential to cause devastation.
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Andrew Dillon, Michigan State University; Pieter Serneels, University of East Anglia; Sarah A. Kopper, Michigan State University
Health investments raise worker productivity, but firms may not observe changes in worker effort. Technology that measures physical activity demonstrates these potential gains.
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Environment + Energy
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David Burton, Dalhousie University
The Paris climate agreement aims to limit global warming to 2C above pre-industrial levels. We need to curb greenhouse gas emissions, but we can also make gains with carbon farming.
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Michael Carolan, Colorado State University
The fate of turkey tails shows how Americans have shifted from eating whole animals to focusing on choice cuts – and the surprising places where unwanted parts end up.
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Politics + Society
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Andrea Freidus, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
Voluntourists' ability to change systems, alleviate poverty or provide support for vulnerable children is limited. They don't have the skills and can perpetuate patronising and unhelpful ideas.
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Science + Technology
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Kevin Elliott, Michigan State University
Science isn't cold, hard facts uncovered by emotionless robots. Acknowledging how and where values play a role promotes a more realistic view and can advance science's reputation for reliability.
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Education
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Anneke Newman, University of Sussex
The assumption that children’s schooling decisions are mainly decided by their parents, and their fathers in particular, is not entirely accurate.
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