Estate planning for your digital assets by Natalie Banta, Drake University What will happen to your Facebook account when you die? What about all your photos shared on social media, your texts with loved ones, or documents on cloud storage systems? In just the two-year period from 2012 to 2014, humans produced more data than … Read More
Sexual violence as a weapon of war: why the Nobel Prize for Peace matters. For ordinary women and men, peace is vital – as essential as air itself. Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad, the recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize award of 2018, know this. The Helper Mukwege is “the helper” who has provided medical … Read More
People with disabilities at risk of being wrongly deemed ‘incompetent’ by the health system, by Elizabeth Mohler, Western University As an individual with a disability, I live in fear that if admitted to the hospital, a healthcare provider may deem me incompetent based on my disability. This may seem unlikely, but I lived, academic and … Read More
“How to define dignity and its place in human rights – a philosopher’s view” by Doris Schroeder, University of Central Lancashire To most people, the concept of dignity may not seem such a controversial subject. And yet it has been defined in different ways by different cultures and different philosophers. For some, it is the … Read More
Child Mental Health. Impact of child mental health problems is worse than 40 years ago – our new study suggests by Naomi Warne, Cardiff University and Ruth Sellers, University of Sussex In England, rates of childhood mental health disorders have increased in the past 20 years. The proportion of five to 15-year-olds with a mental … Read More
Widowed. Article by Suzy Solley, Queen Mary University of London Imagine that you have just lost your husband. Your husband’s family take you to the local river, take out your nose ring (given to you in marriage), wash off the red tika from between your eyes, throw your red beaded necklace into the water and … Read More
Summer. Bringing joy back to the classroom and supporting stressed kids – what summer school looks like in 2021 by Raphael Travis Jr., Texas State University; Kathleen Lynch, University of Connecticut; Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Temple University; Naomi Polinsky, Northwestern University, and Roberta Golinkoff, University of Delaware Already 62% of parents believe their children are behind in … Read More
Elder abuse increasing, without increased awareness by Linda R. Phillips, University of Arizona and Lisa Marie O’Neill, University of Arizona About 16% of older adults are victims of some form of mistreatment and the number of reported cases of elder abuse is steadily increasing. Because of poor record-keeping, however, those of us who study elder abuse … Read More
Finally, Some Changes To Health-Based Discrimination In Canadian Immigration Law by Laura Bisaillon, University of Toronto As it currently stands, there is health-based discrimination in Canadian law. The system disadvantages the diseased and disabled. Restrictions preventing people with disease and disability from permanently immigrating are longstanding features of how Canadian borders have been and are … Read More
Beating coronavirus requires faith leaders to bridge the gap between religion and science by Katherine Marshall While many religious communities have embraced physical distancing measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus, some still encourage gatherings despite strong public health messages that large groups run a significant threat of disease transmission. Some ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities … Read More
