I want to express my profound gratitude to the organisers for the honour and privilege granted to me to deliver the 2020 Annual Lecture under the theme: Hate Speech and its Impact on Transitional Justice. I feel scarcely qualified to do so but will endeavour to...
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5th October was World Teachers’ Day. The theme for this year could not be any more relevant than it currently is – Teachers: Leading in crisis, reimagining the future. Indeed, when the world faced the greatest health challenge of our lifetime in the last eighty years, our definition of who are heroes was revolutionised. Instead of celebrating...
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As the world races against time in search of a vaccine to attend to the Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, one cannot help but feel that the more things change around access to medicines, the more they stay the same. The search for a vaccine has re-ignited...
Read MoreCOVID 19 has unearthed massive inequalities within our societies and brought to glaring light the unique burdens which women carry the world over. As we respond to the impacts of COVID 19 both in the immediate and long term, we have an unprecedented opportunity to...
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Persons with albinism are often faced with misconceptions about their mental, intellectual and creative capabilities. Society has this strange idea that those with albinism can't think for themselves and that they have limited capabilities because they look different to the next person. Person with albinism can...
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Only one thing is certain about the post-pandemic world: there is no way back to the globalized economy that preceded it. Everything else is up for grabs, including the rise of China, the fate of the United States, and the survival of the European Union....
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Nearly 17 million Americans filed for unemployment in just the three weeks ending April 4. And analysis by the research center INET Oxford predicts that without urgent action, 24% of U.S. jobs could be lost in coming weeks — compared with just 3.3% during the...
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In the rush to mitigate a public-health emergency like the COVID-19 pandemic, illiberal governments around the world are testing the limits of civil rights and democratic checks and balances. As history has shown time and again, there is no better moment than an emergency for...
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Le Kenya qui importait l’essentiel de son poisson de la Chine a redécouvert son potentiel halieutique local et la pêche a miraculeusement repris sa place du jour au lendemain. Il est temps pour la RDC de tirer toutes les leçons de cette crise majeure pour...
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here is no doubt that the rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly altered many facets of everyday life. Even more, we may be witnessing a fundamental re-odering of the social order, as we know it. Whilst COVID-19 is essentially a public health issue, it is a crisis that has also...
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