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Editor's note
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Racial justice is a public health issue, according to York University scholar Roberta Timothy. “The prolonged injustice of racism: from junior kindergarten through to post-secondary education, often leads to exacerbated health conditions,” she writes. Health indicators include higher infant mortality rates, prevalences of hypertension and incidents of breast cancer.
Every year, thousands of North Koreans manage to escape their country. Many head for South Korea, where they find themselves stigmatised and excluded – and so they head to third countries, where they try to claim asylum. But as Markus Bell explains, their claims are often unsuccessful – and the UK is particularly resistant to granting them refugee status.
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Vinita Srivastava
Culture & Society, Critical Race, Arts
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Top story
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Health impacts from anti-Black racism and anti-Indigeneity are often dismissed or kept silent by health scholars and health care workers.
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Roberta K. Timothy, York University, Canada
A health and human rights researcher, therapist and professor explains why racial justice is a public health issue.
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North Korea’s embassy in south London.
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Markus Bell, University of Sheffield
Legal technicalities and political priorities make it hard for North Koreans to settle on British soil.
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Politics + Society
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Mehmet Ozalp, Charles Sturt University
Despite a devastating toll in the seven-year conflict, which has seen 400,000 people killed and six million displaced, there is no end in sight for the people of Syria.
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Environment + Energy
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Cecilia Gontijo Leal, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém
Thousands of dirt roads crisscross the Brazilian Amazon, serving ranchers, loggers and miners. The area's fragile waterways — and the spectacular fish that live in them — pay a high price.
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Derek E. Lee, Pennsylvania State University
A new study found that community-based wildlife conservation can quickly result in clear ecological success.
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Health + Medicine
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Chloe C. Hudson, Queen's University, Ontario; Kate Harkness, Queen's University, Ontario
New research reveals the burden of depression on individuals with autism, and that depression rates are higher among those with above average IQ.
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Science + Technology
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Russell Bonduriansky, UNSW
Humans, and indeed pet dogs, are more than just products of genes – even before the moment of conception, environments play a vital role in shaping us.
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Arts + Culture
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Leo Braudy, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Scott Higgins, Wesleyan University; Stephen Groening, University of Washington; Thomas Delapa, University of Michigan
Sound, color and special effects transformed the moviegoing experience. These inventions decidedly did not.
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