The IMF is an organization of 189 member countries that works to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world. The Secretary of the Treasury serves as the U.S. Governor to the IMF, and the U.S. Executive Director of the IMF is one of 24 ... Read More »
The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women. A functional commission of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), it was established by ECOSOC resolution 11(II) of 21 June 1946. The CSW is instrumental in promoting women’s rights, documenting the reality of women’s ... Read More »
Rishi Sunak, (born May 12, 1980, Southampton, England), British politician and financier who became leader of the Conservative Party and prime minster of the United Kingdom in October 2022. Previously he served as chancellor of the Exchequer (2020–22). Sunak was born into a family with immigrant roots. His grandparents emigrated from Punjab, in northwestern India, to East Africa, where his ... Read More »
The woman said she met the prince in a nightclub in Rio de Janeiro in 2004 — when Charlene and Albert were supposedly dating. Her daughter, a 15-year-old Brazilian schoolgirl, sent a handwritten note in Portuguese to Prince Albert at the Royal Palace last September. Albert’s legal team call the allegations ‘a hoax’ and the legal team of the woman ... Read More »
Previous analysis finds that people respond differently to “financial” and “moral” political scandals. However, experimental and observational studies tend to reach different conclusions about which type of scandal induces a stronger negative reaction from the public. We use an experiment embedded in a national survey to examine the possibility that these divergent findings can, in part, be explained by a ... Read More »
Ivanka Trump has received an award on behalf of her late mother Ivana, who was being honored by the Czech Republic president for her ‘dedication to the cultural and social life’ of the country. The 40-year-old stunned in a floor-length black dress with a built-in embellished wrap around sash as she entered the Independent Czechoslovak State Day celebrations with her ... Read More »
New Yorker Magazine Exclusive: The protests that erupted on September 16th—led by the girls and young women of Gen Z— were a revolt against the theocracy’s intrusions on their lives, private and political. The Zoomers are braver, more ambitious, and more pragmatic than the previous two generations, as Forough Alaei captures in her photographs. The youth of the nineteen-sixties and ... Read More »
THE Rich Kids Of Canada are flaunting their excessive wealth by posing with wads of cash and flash supercars. Social media is rife with shocking posts from spoiled youngsters and the Canadians are no different — as they share pictures from their glamorous summer holidays, The Sun reports. Private jets, luxury yachts and bling gold watches are commonplace on the ... Read More »
Throughout history, social movements — small groups that are loosely connected but united by a shared purpose — have created transformational change. Women’s suffrage and civil rights in the U.S., Indian independence, the color revolutions in Eastern Europe, and the Arab Spring all hinged on the powerless banding together against the powerful. In these movements, protest has played an important ... Read More »
The University of Southampton is ranked among the top 100 universities globally and top 15 in the UK. The University is a research-led founding member of the prestigious Russell Group and have a community of over 7,450 international students from 130 different countries. Southampton have courses from over 65 subject areas which are informed by the latest research and taught ... Read More »