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Nearly 700 people have died at sea this year while trying to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Europe. In the latest incident, two boats carrying migrants capsized, with reports that 150 had drowned. The tragedy comes soon after a complaint filed at the International Criminal Court argued that the European Union’s migration policy should be considered as crimes against humanity. Kerstin Carlson explains the petition and its possible
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Bride price is widely accepted in many African societies as being crucial to concluding traditional marriage rites. Some have suggested that the practice can leave women vulnerable to abuse by men who consider their wives as their “purchase”. But, suggests Stephen Baffour Adjei, research in Ghana shows that the reality is far more nuanced, for both women and men.
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Members of the NGO ‘SOS Mediterranee’ during the rescue of more than 250 migrants on a wooden boat off the Libyan coast.
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Kerstin Carlson, University of Southern Denmark
The ICC may be the only institution capable of breaking the current legal impasse.
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The practice of bride price has evolved.
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Stephen Baffour Adjei, University of Education
Bride price practice has both social and psychological implications for the men who pay and those women for whom it is paid.
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Health + Medicine
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Andrew Gibbs, South African Medical Research Council
Poverty, traumatic experiences, and gender inequalities, directly increased HIV-risk behaviours such as having unprotected sex and having multiple sexual partners.
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Pauline Bakibinga, African Population and Health Research Center
Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have made vaccination and post-infection therapy available. But the number of those infected annually and dying from viral Hepatitis continues to be high.
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En français
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Marème Ndoye, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar
Les théories du commerce international ont connu de fortes mutations depuis les travaux de Ricardo (1871), père du libre-échangisme et de Heckscher, Ohlin et Samuelson qui ont fondé leur analyse sur la…
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Jean Winand, Université de Liège
L'écriture hiéroglyphique, d’une grande beauté, fourmille de détails, avec une précision étonnante dans la gravure, souvent rehaussée de couleurs.
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