From onset leading television channels were involved in a dogfight for Premier league broadcast rights
Initial bids came from four parties that were interested in the management and running of the newly-founded English Premier League – two of which came from groups that were considered to be non-starters, one of which hoped to set up a football-only pay-TV channel. ITV didn’t want to work with...
Down memory lane: How after showing commercial promise English football transited to Premier League
By the time the formation of the Premier League was announced on April 5, 1991, much had changed from the FA’s original lofty intentions. Of the suggestions in Alex Fynn’s report on how a new top division could segue with the interests of the game in a general sense, only...
How destitute Venezuelan migrants fall in hands of criminal gangs and abusive employers when they arrive in Brazil
Roughly 7,000 Indigenous Warao people have migrated to Brazil from Venezuela, often arrive malnourished and destitute. Language is major hurdle as the migrants have limited knowledge of Spanish, let alone Portuguese. Last year, in neighbouring Guyana also International Organization for Migration (IOM) and NGOs, the initiative was set up to...
Why Venezuelan migrants have become an economic and humanitarian nightmare for South America
After travelling more than 3,000 kilometres from Venezuela, most migrants arrive in the northern border region of Tumbes, Peru, often malnourished and with urgent medical needs, according to aid groups at the border. Due to recent restrictions on entry into Peru, most now use clandestine border crossings, where they are...
Recidivism in US: Retrial detention encourages suspects to commit – rather than prevent – crimes after release
Charles Loeffler, a criminologist at the University of Pennsylvania and Daniel Nagin, a criminologist at Carnegie Mellon University, who co-authored 2022 Annual Review have revealed that specific situation where incarceration was consistently linked to an increased likelihood of committing a crime in the future: pretrial detention. This is when people...
America’s sky-high rate of incarceration has not reined in crime, evidence now shows prison raises likelihood of breaking law
In the spring of 1968, with crime rising at alarming rates across the United States of America, Republican candidate for president Richard Nixon gave a speech in New York City outlining his solutions for America’s lawlessness. “A society that is lenient and permissive for criminals,” he said, “is a society...
As Ukraine crisis bites UNHCR is planning to redeploy staff from other operations in Latin America
As donors divert millions in development funding towards Eastern Europe, the South Asian country is edging closer towards what should be a preventable collapse, United Nations staff fear. “If it turns into a humanitarian emergency, then there will be some attention and some funds, but we want to avoid that,”...
How war in Ukraine has diverted attention from humanitarian crises in Africa and South Asia
In the more than four months since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, aid workers say attention, resources and expertise have been diverted away from crises elsewhere, forcing cuts to life-saving services and interrupting the distribution of vital supplies. Now, as rates of inflation spike and supply chains falter,...
From Covid stress, to downtime and recovery: How health workers are coping with post-pandemic ‘emptiness’
There’s job stress, and then there’s the crushing pressure paramedics went through during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. The uncertainty, the dread, the constantly changing protocols, the shortages of personal protective equipment, the multiple calls to the same nursing home – it was almost too much for Kate...
How Canadian anti-terror law is impacting on humanitarian support in Afghanistan a year after Taliban takeover
As Afghanistan recovers from an earthquake that killed more than 1,000 people, and amidst an already dire humanitarian situation, Canadian aid organisations say their hands are tied by a restrictive anti-terrorism law that has effectively banned their work since the August 2021 Taliban takeover. Because the Taliban is listed as...
