A member of the Garifuna ethnic group holds a sign reading “Garifuna Lives Also Matter” durign a protest in front of the Supreme Court of Justice in Tegucigalpa, on July 21, 2020 to demand that four of their leaders who were taken by “armed people wearing vests from the Police Investigation Directorate (DPI)” in the Honduran Caribbean community of Triunfo de la Cruz, appear alive. – The four Garifuna leaders were kidnapped on July 18, 2020, activists from non-governmental organizations and the Ministry of Human Rights reported. In 2015 the Garifuna community of 10,000 inhabitants won a lawsuit in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights that forced the State of Honduras to grant them “a collective property title” over the territories where they live. (Photo by Orlando SIERRA / AFP) (Photo by ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP via Getty Images)
Mark Solovey, a professor in the Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science & Technology, explores the historical mistrust of social science in his latest book (photo courtesy of Solovey)
Building on a pilot project in Freetown, Sierra Leone, the Local Government Revenue Initiative seeks to help local governments in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia collect more local revenue equitably and fairly (photo Abdul Karim Jalloh/Unsplash)
From left to right: Illan Kramer, Akshita Vincent, Derek Newton, Leah Cowen, Andrea Carfi, Patricia Gauthier, Kavisha Jayasundara and Shehzad Iqbal (photo by Johnny Guatto)
(L-R): Illan Kramer, Akshita Vincent, Derek Newton, Leah Cowen, Andrea Carfi, Patricia Gauthier, Kavisha Jayasundara, Shezad Iqbal
(Photo by Johnny Guatto)
In an increasingly interconnected world, the advantages of international collaboration far outweigh the possible drawbacks, says Alex Mihailidis, U of T’s associate vice-president, international partnerships (photo by Nick Iwanyshyn)
Shelley Lumba hopes her research will lead to new ways of combatting the blight caused by the parasitic witchweed plant, which the UN considers a major impediment to poverty alleviation in Africa (photo courtesy of Shelley Lumba)
With a water tank located out back and solar panel on the roof, the Kharumwa Health Centre in northern Tanzania is using a rainwater harvesting facility that is treated with UV light (photo by Karlye Wong)
