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How are Snapchat filters allowing survivors of sexual assault tell their stories?
Digital & Computing

How are Snapchat filters allowing survivors of sexual assault tell their stories?

...laws against perpetrators. Despite this, not many victims come forward to register complaints or report attacks to police due to insensitive questioning and social stigmas that come with being a survivor of sexual violence in India's highly patriarchal society. To try to change this, journalist and self-titled Snapchat-storyteller Yusuf Omar provides his subjects with a...
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COP26 and the Glasgow Pact...one small step
Nature & Environment

COP26 and the Glasgow Pact...one small step

...law’ but peppered with a few juicy new headlines. For COP26 these included: Nations will up their game significantly on their NDCs (indicator 2/3) in the coming year ahead of COP27 in Egypt. For the first time in a COP decision, there was language around reducing fossil fuel use in the context of ‘efforts towards the phasedown of unabated coal power…’. Strong...
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Why the UK can't take business support for the EU for granted
Society, Politics & Law

Why the UK can't take business support for the EU for granted

...laws, giving member states control over migration and restoring the UK’s right to veto EU legislation. Business for New Europe, meanwhile, makes a case for the UK to stay in the EU. Their campaign is somewhat more comprehensive in the sense that beyond the economic and the trade components, their rationale extends into broader, and longer-term strategic issues like...
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Tackling juror trauma and stress
Society, Politics & Law

Tackling juror trauma and stress

...Law courses. [A stressed woman, leaning against a wall.] It goes without saying that being a juror can be stressful, particularly in offence against the person cases where jurors may be subjected to a range of graphic imagery depicting injury and death. Added to this, recent technological advances in 3D printing processes allow jurors to examine highly detailed physical...
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What pressures are young men feeling?
Education & Development

What pressures are young men feeling?

...law, the girl’s always right when it comes to the child,” said another. Most of the young men in our focus groups claimed to be tolerant towards homosexuality – “you wouldn’t discriminate against a gay person” – while recognising that prejudice still exists in wider society. However, sexuality was clearly a topic that some found difficult to talk about in a...
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How does trauma influence identity and engagement with extremism?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How does trauma influence identity and engagement with extremism?

...law. Violent extremism or terrorism is the taking of violent actions to bring about ideological, political or economic change in society in line with the group/individual beliefs. Examples of terrorist groups include Al Qaeda, ISIL and Boko Haram. Many factors have been identified as to why people join extremist groups. There are push factors, that is conditions that lead...
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Why do we keep running?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why do we keep running?

...law and brave London’s mockery”. But if exercise is degrading why, as every year goes by, are there more runners? Not to be mocked The answer is that you only have to put on a TV to see that sport is respected worldwide, but exercise is not revered in the same way. And I think that running is popular because it has its feet in both camps of sport and exercise. It is a...
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The legal profession has a mental health problem – which is an issue for everyone
Society, Politics & Law

The legal profession has a mental health problem – which is an issue for everyone

...law firms is on fee earning, growth and productivity. Well-being is therefore viewed as irrelevant. For example, practitioners have told us that there is of culture of “you have got to get on with it” when dealing with stressful or emotionally demanding work. Some have suggested that there is a stigma within the profession with regards to mental health and that...
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