The first provisions of the Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA) came into force on 28 June 2022 and the remainder are expected to be implemented by October 2023. The BSA introduces a new regime governing the design, construction, maintenance, and occupation of buildings and has been classed as the most […]

Country: Ethiopia Source: Save the Children More than 13 million people, including 6.8 million children, need safe water. The situation is likely to get worse in the January-March dry season, while the April rains are set to be below average.

Photo: Pixabay/Kanenori  Scientific consensus has it that limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is our best bet of saving the planet and everyone on it from the worst effects of a changing climate. That target, enshrined in the Paris Agreement, seems increasingly out of reach as greenhouse gas emissions […]

Discriminatory practices in the workplace are strictly prohibited by Article L. 1132-1 of the French Labor Code and Article 225-1 of the French Criminal Code. Prohibited treatment includes treating an employee, a job applicant, or an applicant for an internship or a training course differently or unfavorably compared to another […]

Late last year, Congress enacted a sweeping set of new retirement savings rules. The SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (SECURE 2.0), included as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, builds on the significant retirement savings changes previously enacted by the original SECURE Act of 2019. The changes affect both […]

El País, in an article about the food crisis in Egypt, quoted IFPRI findings from a recent issue post in the High Food & Fertilizer Prices and War in Ukraine series and interv

Followers of “The Last of Us,” a 2013 video game release that’s now a top HBO drama series in the United States, know that the apocalyptic storyline begins with a heat-adapted fungus that takes control of humans and turns them into zombies. While there’s no zombie apocalypse on the horizon […]