Anthropology Cultures Human Rights 
Anthropology News
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
But even the companies seeking to require users to either provide their data or else pay for access aren’t reinforcing the idea that users “own” data so much as they are converting privacy from a right into a service. I believe that tackling the elitism underlying the industry-academia divide is a worthy goal, and also an urgent one.
Sapiens
JANUARY 13, 2025
Special Rapporteur on Climate Change and Human Rights, met with stakeholders in the Philippines to report on the status of the country regarding environmental and human rights protection. Read the introduction to the collection here. In November 2023 , Ian Fry , the first U.N.
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Anthropology News
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Anthropology has been quite slow to embrace Helen Schwartzman’s insight in The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities (1989) that meetings offer a vital window into collective human projects and organizations. Josh Meyer is the section contributing editor for the Association for the Anthropology of Policy.
Sapiens
OCTOBER 23, 2024
Working in Indonesia and Peru, we also use this research, and our close partnerships with local communities and organizations, to spur action that supports gender equality and the basic human right to water. WATER INSECURITY AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE The statistics on rising water insecurity are distressing. An estimated “1.8
Anthropology News
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
During a brief visit to Iraq in the heat of summer 2023, Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, declared , “The era of global boiling has indeed begun.” The post Under the Baghdad Sun appeared first on Anthropology News. Credit: Murtaja Lateef Souk al-Shorja, Baghdad’s oldest market, summer 2023.
Anthropology News
JANUARY 24, 2024
Throughout the Cold War, campaigns of discreditation against capitalist alternatives flourished in the United States, and identity-based and human-rights-focused campaigns became more prominent. These efforts have been built without the warmth of tinto, the stick of hot plastic chairs, or the pulse of broader human presence.
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 1, 2018
As the American Academy of Arts and Science’s 2013 “The Heart of the Matter” report observes, connecting these fields is necessary to solve the world’s biggest problems such as “the provision of clean air and water, food, health, energy, universal education, human rights, and the assurance of physical safety.”.
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