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Context is the Foundation’s award-winning media platform, providing news and analysis around three of the most significant and interconnected issues of our time: climate change, the effects of technology on society, and socio-economic inequality. Our human-centered journalism is delivered across a range of formats — from in-depth stories to videos and podcasts to newsletters.
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UK doctors and nurses with long COVID to sue for compensation
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Need human rights research? Talk to the Global South
Surya Deva is the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development and a professor at Macquarie University. Talya Swissa works for the World Benchmarking Alliance, an organisation that assesses…