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Prepared by Ajay Sandhu Each week the Human Rights, Big Data & Technology Project based at the University of Essex Human Rights Centre prepares an overview of related news stories from the week. You can follow the HRBDT project on twitter: @hrbdtNews. This week’s summary contains news articles from the last two weeks.
By Anil Yilmaz Vastardis In the wake of the UK’s EU membership referendum result, people from all walks of life are wondering what will happen next. While a big uncertainty looms over the political questions surrounding the process of the UK’s exit from the EU, the repercussions go far beyond the UK – and some of […]
By Jan Malinowski The war on drugs has delivered many broken promises – like the one of a “drug-free world” – alongside considerable collateral damage. Despite the good intentions expressed during the latest United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on the world drug problem (19 to 21 April 2016) and the valuable proposals in […]
Prepared by Ajay Sandhu Each week the Human Rights, Big Data & Technology Project based at the University of Essex Human Rights Centre prepares an overview of related news stories from the week. You can follow the HRBDT project on twitter: @hrbdtNews. This week’s summary contains news articles from the last two weeks.
By Alex Wilks The lack of food staples and medical supplies, failing public services, frequent blackouts and brutal insecurity have become so serious in Venezuela that earlier this month, UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon described the situation as a ‘humanitarian crisis’. Colombia has even opened humanitarian corridors to allow thousands of Venezuelans to cross the […]
Prepared by Ajay Sandhu Each week the Human Rights, Big Data & Technology Project based at the University of Essex Human Rights Centre prepares an overview of related news stories from the week. You can follow the HRBDT project on twitter: @hrbdtNews. This week’s summary contains news articles from the last two weeks.
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