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Japan should reform retirement policies to meet challenge of ageing workforce
Japan must improve job quality and further reform the mandatory retirement age to address upfront the challenges of its rapidly ageing and shrinking labour...
Wait for Gender Equality Gets Longer as Women’s Share of Workforce, Politics Drops
Stagnation in the proportion of women in the workplace and women’s declining representation in politics, coupled with greater inequality in access to health and...
Environmental Governance and Human Rights: The Role of The Civil Society And Challenges in India
The Indian judiciary is often credited for developing environmental jurisprudence in India. The Indian courts have devised and put to use a unique method...
Putin, United Russia and the Message
On Dec. 8, Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in the plenary meeting of the 18th United Russia party congress, reiterated the key challenges,...
Trenches in Champs Elysées: From “Paris Commune” to “Gilet jaune”
France is the leader of the contemporary revolutions, so long as the term “revolution”, in its new meaning, came to political culture largely through...
Asia Pacific should reduce inequalities in access to care for the most marginalised groups
Access to healthcare has improved in the Asia Pacific region over the past decade but women in low-income households in rural areas still have...
Business Urges Governments to Step Up Fight Against Climate Change
Heads of 50 major global businesses representing more than $1.5 trillion in total revenue today publish an open letter to world government leaders urging...
Time to Tackle the Stigma Behind Wartime Rape
The youngest capital city in Europe, Pristina, is the ultimate hybrid of old and new: Ottoman-era architecture stands amongst communist paraphernalia, while Kosovars who...
Why Education? How education changed my life
I have a story to tell the world about the importance of education. I was born in a remote village in Madhupurupazilla, under Tangail...
Ahok biopic: The making of a man, the unmaking of a nation
After comedies, ghost horror films are the genre most liked by Indonesians, with 44 percent saying they enjoy them. Apparently they produce a thrill,...