In a look at recent initiatives to decolonialise the aid sector, humanitarian professional and STG Policy Leader Fellow Carla Vitantonio finds that big international agencies have something to learn from local organisations taking a collaborative, open approach towards language sensitivity.

Debates at COP27 remind us that intergenerational justice is gaining political salience – despite the concept’s elusive and contested meanings. In this post, Law PhD candidate Daniel Bertram summarises the recent revival of intergenerational claims in lawsuits around the globe and argues for an expanded view of future generations.

To mark Women’s History Month, Policy Leader Fellow Yasasmin Kaviratne reminds us of the gains Afghanistan’s women have made – and recently lost – in securing their fundamental rights to health, education and freedom from discrimination.

Nearly fifty years after the Portuguese Colonial War, Africans who were conscripted by the Portuguese and disabled in battle still struggle to claim veterans’ benefits. History researcher Carlos Martins has interviewed former soldiers to understand this painful legacy.

In this editorial and introduction to the 2022 Black History Month blog series, history researcher Daphné Budasz explains why it is important to make Black lives and scholarship more visible at the EUI.

The granting of residency or citizenship in exchange for investment is an established – and legal – practice in many states, but it sits uneasily with ‘European values’ as usually promoted. Policy Leader Fellow Anna Patricia Valerio looks into how these schemes are evolving during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Is the global dominance of English a problem for higher education? Language expert Fergal Treanor underscores the social costs and the injustice of today’s practice, and proposes an alternative.

Progressive taxes could be one positive outcome of Covid-19, as people demand fiscal fairness following a crisis. SPS researcher Jakob Frizell explores the parallels with war-time fiscal politics and the constraints on governments today to meet such demands. Taxing the rich, he concludes, is still the wise choice.

In this article, SPS researcher Elena Pisanelli illustrates the flawed approach to artificial intelligence, where we are training the innovative tool at our disposal to codify and legitimate systemic biases rooted in the past.

Sociologist Fabrizio Bernardi discusses how socio-economic status figures in as a risk factor for COVID-19.