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Editor's note
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Some Mexican women aren’t happy with their president. As a candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador touted a progressive agenda designed to protect and empower women. In Mexico, women earn 34% less than men, do most domestic chores and suffer high rates of violence. Yet, as president, López Obrador has ended funding to domestic violence shelters as well as subsidised daycare for working mothers. Luís Gómez Romero and María de la Macarena Iribarne González explain why these cuts violate the human rights of Mexican women.
Central bankers across the world are being pushed to reconsider the relationship between central banking and human rights. This is because their decisions can affect access to housing, adequate food, water, healthcare, education and the security of people’s pensions. Although the precise mandates of central banks can vary, Danny Bradlow sets out how it’s becoming untenable for them to avoid incorporating their impact on human rights into their decision-making and operations.
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Catesby Holmes
Global Affairs Editor
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In February, thousands of women marched in Mexico City to demand that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador do more to keep women safe. The protest sign featured here reads, ‘Don’t be indifferent.’
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Luis Gómez Romero, University of Wollongong; María de la Macarena Iribarne González, University of Wollongong
Mexico is the second most dangerous country for women in Latin America. Yet the new government is slashing funding for programs meant to protect and empower women.
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The Central Bank of Kenya has financial inclusion in its stewardship of the financial system.
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Danny Bradlow, University of Pretoria
A human rights approach offers central banks a new tool for understanding the true costs and benefits of their operations.
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Politics + Society
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Clayton Besaw, University of Central Florida; Jonathan Powell, University of Central Florida
There are reasons to be cautiously optimistic about Bissau-Guinean politics going forward.
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Mark Swilling, Stellenbosch University
South Africans may well be seduced by the prospect of Zuma appearing at the Zondo commission, but he was not alone in driving the state capture project.
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Energy + Environment
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Duncan McLaren, Lancaster University
At best, planting trees won't be enough on its own to slow climate change. At worst, it's a dangerous distraction.
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Purity Rima Mbaabu, University of Nairobi
The rapid invasion is a major threat to the environment and rural people’s livelihoods.
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Health + Medicine
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Dr. Ramona Hurdayal, University of Cape Town; Raphael Taiwo Aruleba, University of Cape Town
Each year 50 000 people from 89 countries, in every continent except Antarctica, die from leishmaniasis, an ancient neglected disease.
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Jerome Goddard, Mississippi State University
Tick-borne diseases are becoming more common in the United States. A public health entomologist outlines some of the lesser-known threats ticks pose to human health.
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Jennifer Kerner, Université Paris Nanterre – Université Paris Lumières
Qu’elle soit symbole de fertilité, déesse-mère, ou plus simplement une beauté mystérieuse, la femme est au centre de la représentation anthropomorphique paléolithique.
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Jérôme Caby, IAE Paris – Sorbonne Business School; Éric Lamarque, IAE Paris – Sorbonne Business School
En plus de la sous-performance de l’activité du groupe allemand, le plan de licenciement de 18 000 salariés, annoncé le 7 juillet, traduit sa persistance dans plusieurs erreurs stratégiques.
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