“Ghislaine Maxwell Charged With Sex Trafficking of 14-Year-Old Girl”, The New York Times
A new indictment accuses Ms. Maxwell of paying a victim of her longtime associate… Continue reading
Issue of the Week: Human Rights
My Father, the Killer, Buenos Aires 1976-2021, BBC News, 25 March 2021
With so much going in the… Continue reading
“How Mary Wortley Montagu’s bold experiment led to smallpox vaccine – 75 years before Jenner”, The Observer
Donna Ferguson, London, 28 Mar 2021
A new book celebrates the trailblazing work of the English aristocrat, who successfully… Continue reading
“Fears for democracy as buoyant Bangladesh turns 50”, BBC News
Anbarasan Ethirajan, London, 24 March 2021
Bangladesh is held up by many as a model of development, but as it… Continue reading
“More than 300 Covid-related deaths and health staff shortages push Eastern Cape hospitals to the edge”, Daily Maverick
By Estelle Ellis, Luvuyo Mehlwana and Hoseya Jubasem, Johannesburg, 23 March 2021
With mounting legal claims against the Eastern Cape… Continue reading
Issue of the Week: Disease
Why the Pandemic Experts Failed, The Atlantic Magazine, March 15-22, 2021
Today is the Spring Equinox in the Northern… Continue reading
“Pulka, where water is the source of life… and disease”, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International
Project Update, Paris, 16 March 2021
Violence which spread throughout Borno state, in northeast Nigeria, has forced people like… Continue reading
“Sheldon report into sexual abuse details the horror in the ‘beautiful game'”, The Guardian
David Conn, London, 17 Mar 2021
Analysis: Inadequacy of child protection for decades in football and across British life… Continue reading