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The power of love: comparison of two romantic relationships
The article illustrates the role of love in two romantic relationships based on two novels. Conrad and Jeanine are the two main characters in...
Invisible COVID-19 makes systemic gender inequalities and injustices visible
It is no surprise that the Covid-19 epidemic is not gender-neutral in our social world, which requires everything to be sexually consequently halted economic...
The Need for Humanitarian Leadership and Global Solidarity during COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic is a systemic human development crisis, affecting individuals and societies in unprecedented ways. It is also generating new humanitarian needs.
According to...
COVID-19: More than a Biological Weapon
While the biological virus is a common enemy of humankind, the political virus born out of certain American politicians is equally detestable, for it...
Spanish Flu and COVID-19 – are there lessons for the world of work?
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, many look to the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918/19, which killed an estimated 50 million people, or...
COVID-19 crisis: Older persons are the pillars of our society – we cannot leave them behind
Authors: Kaveh Zahedi and Eduardo Klien*
COVID-19 is turning our world upside down, especially for those at the end of the age spectrum. The virus...
Covid-19 heightens the risk of child labor, but there is a path to child-labor free cocoa
Did you know that some of your favorite foods may be produced with child labor? Take chocolate, for instance: 60 percent of its main...
Humanity in the age of Covid-19 Pandemic
“We’ve got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis” - Johnnie Cochran
Coronavirus pandemic has turned the world upside down. It...
Coronavirus: What Are the Options? What Are the Implications?
Authors: Sajad Abedi and Mohammad Amin Zabihi
Up to this point, 1,765,500 cases, 108,000 deaths; and still no peaks and no promising solution. The situation...
Learning in light of crisis
Bangkok – The global pandamic of COVID 19 has hit the world in a way nobody has foreseen, let alone prepared to respond. It...