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Connecticut College students unveil global COVID research project Researchers from Conn and its partner institutions around the world presented their findings during a virtual symposium 19 Conn students joined an international team of COVID-19 researchers. When Professor of Slavic Studies Andrea Lanoux recruited a group of Conn students last summer to explore the global impact of COVID-19 on various facets of society, she couldn’t have imagined how far-reaching the project would ultimately ...

Advertisement Probably no country has paid as high a price as Australia did for the international inquiry into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. By becoming the first in the world publicly to call for an independent investigation, Australia made itself a target of the Chinese Communist Party. We know the price we had to pay – punitive Chinese government sanctions on Australian trade worth over $20 billion a year. But what have we gained? The first report by the scientific investigation...

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also claimed that data was withheld from investigators who travelled to China to explore the source of the COVID-19 pandemic.

THISDAY: Are Whistleblowing Laws Working? Are Whistleblowing Laws Working? This article features Government Accountability Project and was originally published here. The International Bar Association has published a new report titled ‘Are Whistleblowing Laws Working?’ The report which is a Global Study of Whistleblower Protection Litigation, tracks the record of whistleblower laws in 38 countries, and provides an unprecedented effort to understand the successes and shortcomings of whistlebl...

Location: Peking Hall, Hilton Wuhan Optics Valley Hotel Ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, good afternoon. Welcome to the joint China-WHO press conference of WHO-convened Global Study of Origins of SARS-Cov-2: China part. This is Mi Feng, the spokesperson of China National Health Commission. Since COVID-19 became a global pandemic, WHO has been actively promoting the international cooperation in terms of the COVID-19 response. China has always been showing firm support to WHO in terms of unlea...

Empowering women in political, diplomatic fields  10 Mar 2021 - 8:28 The Human Rights Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in cooperation with the United Kingdom Embassy to the State of Qatar, in the framework of celebrating International Women’s Day, organized a seminar on “Empowering women in the political and diplomatic field,” to increase awareness of the important roles that women can play during their work in the political and diplomatic fields. The virtual seminar was ...

The majority of global COVID-19 deaths have been in countries where many people are obese, with coronavirus fatality rates ten times higher in nations where at least 50% of adults are overweight, a global study found on Thursday. Emer McCarthy reports.

Any carbon pricing coming from the corporate world is likely to be a massive problem. In Massachusetts, the first carbon tax bill proposed was a massive transfer of wealth from house holds to business based on their rebate formulas. Written by a conservative economy consultant shop for a clueless neoliberal state senator, it took significant effort from labor and progressive tax organization for him to see the problem – but he’s still championing carbon tax, but it’s better now, better be...

WASHINGTON – A new report, Are Whistleblowing Laws Working? A Global Study of Whistleblower Protection Litigation, tracks the records of whistleblower laws in 37 countries and provides an unprecedented effort to understand the successes and shortcomings of whistleblower protection legislation worldwide, following a proliferation of laws in recent decades. Co-published by Government Accountability Project and the International Bar Association (IBA)Legal Policy & Research Unit (LPRU), the repo...

Nairobi Turning Into Murderous Capital Gang members pictured while committing a crime in Nairobis Central Business District. File The recent mystery surrounding the killing of three people at a house in Government Quarters along Jogoo Road in Nairobi marked yet another gruesome murder in the Kenyan capital. Over the last year, the country has witnessed a spike in similar murder cases, with some eventually linked to inheritance wars, business deals, and family members confessing to hiring hit-me...