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Colombia presidential election: Leftist Petro and populist Hernandez headed for run-off

The early vote count in Sunday’s six-way presidential election in Colombia pointed toward a run-off in June, with leftist former rebel Gustavo Petro leading in a ballot held amid growing discontent over increasing inequality and inflation.

France 24

Desegregating schools requires more than giving parents free choices – a scholar studies the choices parents of all races make

Chantal Hailey is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts.Her work focuses on the role of race and racism in how people choose schools and the other spaces they inhabit, and how racism influences inequality. Below are highlights from an interview…

The Conversation

Cannes Fashion Highlights

It is one of the special aspects of the Cannes Film Festival that it serves as much as a parade of extremely expensive clothing as it does as a showcase for devastating films that often focus on poverty, inequality and social crises. What should one wear to the premiere of…

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Will Colombia look left? Presidential race focuses on inequality, enduring violence

Is a peace generation coming of age in Colombia? Six years after the FARC rebellion laid down its arms and one year after student-led protests against inequality and police brutality, citizens will vote on Sunday in the first round of a presidential election where the 2016 peace deal that ended…

France 24

India the billionaire raj? Not so fast

Several reports in the last few months have sounded the alarm about growing income and wealth inequality in India. The statistics cited are not wrong, but they are incomplete. And they have produced sensational, but misleading, news stories.

Bangkok Post

Cannes Film Festival: Armageddon Time review - A poignant coming-of-age story

Though its insights into race, class and social inequality feel pretty obvious, high-calibre acting elevates almost every scene

Evening Standard

WEF: Youth Unemployment, Inequality and Climate Change Top Challenges Facing MENA

Running the team that manages the WEF’s relations and initiatives with the Middle East and North Africa, Maroun Kairouz has a busy portfolio on his hands. After a two year hiatus, the WEF is holding its first in-person meeting in Davos since the start of the pandemic. “The meeting couldn't…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Governments need to take urgent action to combat inequality -Oxfam

Governments need to take urgent action to tackle rising inequality which emerged over the COVID-19 crisis with a surge in energy and food prices ramping up pressures on millions of people around the world, Oxfam said on Monday.

Reuters

People earning Rs 25,000 per month fall in top 10% of wage earners in India: Report

NEW DELHI: India’s income profile is outlined by a growing disparity between those who lie on the top end of the earning pyramid

The Times of India

What Scotland can learn from Irish independence: it won't control interest rates and inequality will widen

The UK local elections in May saw gains for nationalists in Scotland and Northern Ireland, raising the prospect of increased debates over the future make-up of the country. In Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, is hoping to hold a second independence referendum in 2023.

The Conversation

Too little too late: voters turn on Morrison in affluent seat of Higgins

The PM is on the nose in Melbourne’s inner east as voters cite inequality and pandemic failures – and a redistribution has put the Greens in a strong position

The Guardian - AU

Poorest New Zealanders lose out to ‘squeezed middle’ in budget, inequality experts say

Government says child poverty is easing in all areas but those on the ground say the dial has barely shifted in the past five years

The Guardian - AU

Spy agencies urged to fix open secret: a lack of diversity

The national reckoning over racial inequality sparked by George Floyd’s murder two years ago has gone on behind closed doors inside America’s intelligence agencies

The Independent UK

Colonialism Creates Poverty By Design

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'The health system in Wales is failing women'

Women will tell you about being prescribed anti-depressants by their doctor for chronic pain, to being diagnosed with a panic attack when having an actual heart attack

ABC News

Intergenerational inequality to rise as tax and welfare perks target older voters, experts warn

Benefits available to older, wealthier people are outweighing the support given to younger people, with election policies from both major parties set to worsen the situation, according to experts.

Daily Record

Livingston MP Hannah Bardell backs campaign to tackle gender inequality in sports print journalism

The Livingston MP has thrown her support behind a Women in Journalism Scotland campaign called The Sexist Shame of the Beautiful Game.

The Guardian - UK

Journey of Humanity by Oded Galor review – inequality explained?

An study of the factors behind economic growth attempts to reveal the ‘great cogs’ that drive development

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Unchain Me review – Dostoevsky inspires secret mission on the streets of Brighton

dreamthinkspeak’s timely new production on inequality and abuse of political power offers its audience a choice: complicity or compliance?

The Conversation

How well off you are depends on who you are. Comparing the lives of Australia's Millennials, Gen-Xers and Baby Boomers

Most Australian voters are either Baby Boomers (born 1946 to 1964), Generation Xers (1965 to 1980) or Millennials (1981 to 1996).

The National (Scotland)

Campaign launched to tackle sexism in sports journalism

A SCOTTISH presenter and politician are among those backing a campaign to tackle gender inequality in Scottish print sports journalism.

The Conversation

Even if next week’s budget avoids the issue, it’s time New Zealand seriously considered a wealth tax

Tax is back in the news. Often this means a looming budget or election, as is indeed the case now, with the government’s 2022 budget delivered next week.

Manchester Evening News

Government's Levelling Up vow will be difficult to achieve and inequality may DEEPEN, Michael Gove admits

The Levelling Up programme was set out by the Conservative party in their 2019 manifesto

The Hindu

Breaking the glass ceiling to lead a normal life

Alaka is Telangana’s first transwoman appointed by the judicial authority

The National (Scotland)

'Commonplace sexism' pushing women out of Scottish trad music

SCOTLAND is potentially losing out on brilliant musicians because of gender inequality, it has been warned.

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