The government of Ontario, Canada launched a basic income pilot in 2017. Though it was cancelled prior to official analysis in 2019, researchers were able to gather data and make findings about the ...

These three tribal groups inhabited eastern Central Asia from the eighth to the thirteenth centuries, with the Uighurs and the Kyrgyz living in the northern plains and the Tangut settling in the south ...

The rapid rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) raises pressing privacy concerns despite its possible benefits. Stacy-Ann Elvy explains how the increasing volume and variety of IoT data may lead to an ...

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The World Inequality Report 2022 is an up-to-date account of global trends in inequality. The report is based on WID.world – the most extensive database on the historical evolution of income and ...

Many arguments have been made for Universal Basic Income (UBI) in the debate of revovery from the pandemic. This think piece by Ian Gough makes the alternative case for Universal Basic Services (UBS) ...

Ghengis Khan and his Mongol armies rose to power at the end of the twelfth century, at a moment when few opposing rulers could put up much resistance to them. The vast Mongol empire he created ...

The UNESCO Convention against Discrimination in Education (1960) and other international human rights treaties prohibit any exclusion from, or limitation to, educational opportunities on the basis of ...

UNESCO is pleased to announce the winners of the 7th edition of the Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads International Photo Contest. UNESCO calls on young people around the world, aged 14 to 25 years old, to ...

Religious movements and religions have had an important role on the history of the Silk Roads. It is notably the case of Buddhism which had a considerable influence on the early trade routes. Within ...

LINKS was founded as an intersectoral initiative in 2002, and has proceeded to inform and facilitate exchanges between the holders of Indigenous and local knowledge with science policy and ...