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Next year promises to be a big year for migrants' rights. Two different global agreements are meant to be struck: one on migration, and one on refugees. That means a distinction is being drawn between the different reasons people choose to leave their homes. Heaven Crawley and Katharine Jones warn against the dangers of putting people into such stark categories, and argue that the rights of all migrants should trump political distinctions.
Elsewhere, catch up on the bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef, the questionable morality of lab-grown meat, and the surprisingly complex evolution of global inequality.
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Rohingya refugees in mid-December at a camp in Bangladesh.
EPA-EFE/Tracey Nearmy Australi and New Zealand Out.
Heaven Crawley, Coventry University; Katharine Jones, Coventry University
Two global compacts on refugees and migrants will be proposed in 2018.
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Business + Economy
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Antonio Savoia, University of Manchester
Discussions around inequality have lacked hard data – until now. A new report shows inequality levels across the globe.
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Environment + Energy
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Sophie Lewis, Australian National University; Jennie Mallela, Australian National University
The 2016 bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef was the worst on record. Now a new analysis points the finger squarely at human-induced warming, and warns that the entire reef's future is at stake.
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Politics + Society
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Sanne Weber, University of Birmingham
Some of the crucial mechanisms meant to deliver peace in Colombia have yet to be set up.
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Roger Southall, University of the Witwatersrand
Changing the South African system to allow for direct election would require the country to look carefully at how a directly elected president should be held accountable to parliament.
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Science + Technology
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Ben Bramble, Trinity College Dublin
We need to address the mindset that enables this mass slaughter of animals in the first place.
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Adam Fish, Lancaster University
Robots, like drones, are filtering the natural world through algorithms and turning the world into data.
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