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Toward an Inclusive AI Future for Women
There is a need to address gender inequity by removing natural biases from artificial intelligence systems Stanford University researcher Andrew Ng describes artificial intelligence as “the…
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German Election: What to Expect in the Race to Replace Angela Merkel
Germany is shortly to hold its first ever federal election in which the sitting chancellor is not running. The departure of Angela Merkel means that, for…
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The Reality of Climate Financial Risk
Those who argue that climate change has little to do with macroprudential risk management are offering a counsel of despair. If the 2008 global financial crisis…
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Why ‘Nations’ Don’t Fail Even Though ‘States’ Fail
A State is an organised political community, living under a government and that is a sovereign political entity in public international law Nations never really fail.…
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Climate Activists are Being Killed for Trying to Save Our Planet. There is A Way to Help
Last year, there were a record 227 killings globally. It is our duty to keep resisting the insatiable forces that led to their deaths Each year,…
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Neo Taliban
THE fall of the government and the Taliban’s ascendency in Kabul has pushed Afghanistan towards another transition. Several questions arise. For one, are the new Taliban…
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Bangladesh’s New Data Protection Act: Brittle Shield or Blunt Sword?
The Government of Bangladesh is drafting a data protection and localisation law ("draft data protection act, DPA" or "the law"), which, once enacted, will be the…
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Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 Attacks: A Day of Remembrance, A Day of Reckoning
This is not how the day marking the 20th anniversary of the al-Qaeda attacks on the United States was expected to be commemorated, but unfortunately, the…
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Kids and COVID: Why Young Immune Systems are Still on Top
Innate immunity might be the key to why children have fared better with the virus. But the Delta variant poses fresh unknowns. Early last year, children’s…
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Are Indo-Russian Ties the Next Casualty of Great Power Shifts?
The fall of Kabul may have widened the rift between New Delhi and Moscow. On his first trip abroad in 2014, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi…
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Coronavirus and Conflict
TWENTY years ago, on that fateful September day, the world changed forever. Even as the smoke and ash from the cataclysm was still in the air,…
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Clean and Green Finance
A new sustainable financial system can secure a net zero future for the world There were many innovations from the Paris Agreement, but three were key.…