When the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) were unanimously endorsed by the UN Human Rights Council in June 2011, they gave birth to a new field of endeavour that aims to confront, diminish, and eliminate business-related conduct that violates or otherwise harms human rights. Eight years on, the Intergovernmental Working Group…
Read moreLebanon: a revolution redefining a country
It has been over three weeks since protests erupted in Lebanon on the night of October 17. The revolutionary wave continues to grow to include wider sectors of society. Protesters keep surprising themselves and everybody else as they lead a popular uprising that has swept across the country, breaking taboos, stereotypes, and the centrality of…
Read moreThis Photo Editing App Saves You Time So You Can Actually Eat Your Instagram-Worthy Meal
Do you hate spending more time getting your photos Instagram-worthy than actually enjoying what you’re doing in the snapshots? Or do you get tired of taking snaps of your piping hot brunch food, only to bite into gross cold eggs 20 minutes later because you couldn’t get the lighting just right? Same. Enter: SelfMade. It’s…
Read moreRead J.K. Rowling’s Original Harry Potter Pitch to Publishers
The tale of J.K. Rowling’s attempts to find a publisher for the Harry Potter books is an oft-told and inspiring story of eventual triumph over rejection for anyone feeling disheartened or hopeless. Rowling was turned down by 12 different publishing houses before British independent publisher Bloomsbury took a chance on her and the boy who lived. Now…
Read moreThe Kardashian Christmas Card May Make a Comeback This Year
The Kardashian-Jenner family Christmas card has become the stuff of legends. The first family of reality TV holds nothing back when it comes to crafting the perfect holiday greeting. They’ve done everything from posing in glamorous gowns on the stairs in 2010 to testing out a 3D version in 2011 to a chaotic carnival in…
Read moreJennifer Lopez Looks Like a Modern-Day Marilyn Monroe in Flared LWD
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Jennifer Lopez has done it again. The 48-year-old singer and actress hit the red carpet to promote the upcoming season of World of Dance, and saying she wowed is an understatement. For the event, she chose a little white dress by designer Ester Abner. While a LWD can be a safe choice, the design she wore…
Read moreEU Urged to Go Further to Save Trash-Filled Waters With New Proposed Plastics Ban
In a move welcomed by conservationists, the executive arm of the European Union (EU) on Monday proposed a ban on 10 common single-use plastics that, together with fishing gear, account for about 70 percent of marine litter across Europe. The European Commission’s ban would apply to bags; balloons and balloon sticks; chips and candy wrappers;…
Read moreWith Lurking Demand Google Be Broken Up, EU Hits Tech Giant With Record $5 Billion Antitrust Fine
The European Union (EU) on Wednesday hit Google with a record-breaking €4.34 billion ($5.06 billion) antitrust fine and ordered the tech giant to make changes that will scale back its dominance of the mobile phone market. Should Google be broken up? “The answer is yes.” Characterizing the move as “the EU’s sharpest rebuke yet to…
Read moreBrits Don't Mince Words: The Most Irreverent and Radical Signs From UK's Historic Anti-Trump Protest
Despite the American corporate media’s efforts to obscure the radical, irreverent, and often obscene signs on display across the United Kingdom on Friday, the disgust hundreds of thousands of Britons feel toward Donald Trump and Trumpism could not be suppressed as they took to the streets en masse to show their opposition to the U.S….
Read moreAlex Jones Is Far From the Only Person Tech Companies Are Silencing
We’re finally having a public debate about the big Internet platforms policing content and suspending accounts. But it’s a serious mistake to frame the debate about content moderation around right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s Infowars and not around the thousands of other moderation decisions that have been made by such online giants as Apple, Facebook,…
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