America's No. 3 spot in the annual U.S. News project is a high-water mark, but comes as nearly half of survey respondents see a negative global impact from a potential Trump presidency. Elliott Davis Jr.Sept. 10
This paper explores the existing empirical data on media coverage of human trafficking as part of a larger effort to establish a theoretical foundation for understanding the nature of national media coverage of cross-border issues. Because the EU contains source, transit and destination countries for...
Understanding why is a little bit more complicated. Environmental factors, along with nutrition and access to healthcare—which is often better in wealthier countries—plays a part. For example, the Netherlands has historically prospered through maritime trade, giving its population access to high-qual...
Where do different countries stand on plastic pollution? A group of 68 countries or blocs, including Canada, the EU, Mexico and Australia, have come to be known as theHigh Ambition Coalition(HAC). They've backed the goal of stopping all new plastic pollution from entering the environment by...
Since Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, more than 2,5 millions children have fled the war facing risk of illegal trafficking and abuse. MEPs adopted a resolution calling to protect children refugees on Thursday (7 April).
None of the EU member states opposed such a solution, Tusk said, explaining that this was because everyone knew that foreign regimes, including the Belarusian and Russian regimes, were involved in human trafficking. “I must say that it went easier than I expected,” he said, admitting he ex...
Global mental health applies the principles of global health to the field of mental health. Over the years, global mental health has advocated the cause of increasing access to mental health care through promoting the prioritization of mental health in g
all which disproportionately affect women79. This is because it is women who are more at the risk of being coerced into sexual trafficking, who bear the burden of pregnancy, and who usually are responsible for food preparation in the home. The implication is that women could be more vulnerable...
Demand is likely to continue to remain high, with current growth at 4% per year. New education hotspots like Malaysia are beginning to attract international students; there are more Nigerian students in Malaysia, for example, than there are in Australia. Many countries would like to attract more...
More than 27 million people worldwide are victims of human trafficking each year, according to the U.S. State Department.