Democracy and Standards

As seen in data by the Council on Foreign Relations, Europe is generally the region with the highest concentration of female-led and repeatedly female-led nations. All the countries which have had three or more female leaders (with the exceptions of Trinidad and Tobago, New Zealand and India) are in Europe. The country which has had the most females at the ...

India has applied to the International Seabed Authority (ISA) for two new licenses to explore parts of the Indian Ocean sea bed for minerals, If they are granted, India would hold four contracts, making it the country with the second highest number of active contracts for deep sea  mining exploration projects. China has five contracts according to ISA data  making ...

The Digital Markets Act (DMA) – the EU’s move to rein in the power of big tech companies – went into effect earlier this month. The six-month grace period for the six companies designated as “gatekeepers” ended on March 7th, meaning they now have to comply with the rules set out in the DMA and outline the measures they’ve taken ...

Teacher shortages are a global phenomenon, according to a report by UNESCO. While the problem is sometimes associated with aging societies which have to compensate for teacher retirements, the world’s still-growing regions on the other hand are due to hire a lot of entirely new teacher positions by 2030. Both scenarios are expected to pose considerable challenges as teaching professionals ...

As of August 2023, around 245,000 Holocaust survivors are thought to be alive around the world, according to the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany  but the number could be 10x higher. Most of them were born between 1933 and 1942, which made them toddlers, school-age children or young adolescents when the Second World War ended in 1945. Around ...

Around 2 billion voters – approximately a quarter of the world’s population – are expected to be heading to the polls this year, according to the Anchor Change Election Cycle Tracker with additional research from Statista. 2024 is seeing national elections in more than 60 countries worldwide. has been dubbed a super election year or even the biggest election year ...

Monday was Martin Luther King Jr. Day but , 60 years on from ‘I have a dream’, racial inequality still permeates U.S.society.. Pew Research Center polled U.S. adults on racial equality in the country. One question included asked respondents how likely they think it is that there will be equality for all people in the U.S., regardless of their race ...

Russia is the most sanctioned country in the world according to Castellum.AI. Leading the sanctions against Russia are the United States, Canada, Switzerland and the United Kingdom with 3,551, 2,765, 2,225 and 1,749 restrictions, respectively. The majority of those sanctions target individuals (11,462), while entities have 4,344 sanctions against them, vessels have 169 and aircraft 102. Before the invasion of ...

Canada is the leading country worldwide for essential healthcare coverage, according to The World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Health Statistics 2023 report. The organization ranked 194 countries based on a selection of indicators of key health concerns such as reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health, infectious diseases, noncommunicable diseases and service capacity and access. The WHO is monitoring universal health ...

In several OECD nations, including the United States, immigrants are less likely to be unemployed than people born in the country. For other OECD members, the opposite is true and native-born populations are outperforming migrants in the labour market. While Anglophone countries and Latin American nations tend to produce better outcomes for immigrants concerning unemployment, this rule is not absolute. ...