Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the whole world is facing a major health crisis. However, this is not the only emergency we are struggling with as racism — an already existing social problem — has emerged once again and given rise to many xenophobic episodes. The attacks are taking place both in Europe and America…
What is human trafficking? Human trafficking is the use of coercion, fraud, or deceit to recruit, move and hold people for benefit. This crime carried out everywhere in the world, is committed against men, women, and children of all ages and backgrounds. To persuade and manipulate their victims, traffickers often use intimidation, pretend to have (fraudulent) employment…
Nowadays, social media are part of our lives. They can be useful, entertaining, fun, informative, and educational, they offer a space to broadcast what you are and your interests, they can also help create communities: it depends on the use you make of them. Unfortunately, they have drawbacks too: they can be harmful to our…
The world’s largest and robustly growing industry is the electronics industry. As new and faster technological innovations keep coming in, consumer demand for recent products increases. This has resulted in a shorter lifespan of devices and a thriving e-waste problem. According to Global E-Waste Monitor, consumers all around the world discard 54 million tonnes of…
If we walk around our cities without getting too much distracted by our routine, we will notice that some people actually live on the streets we walk. Unfortunately, all around the world, there are people who have no fixed abode and they are among the most vulnerable ones. Why do people become homeless? People…
Water is arguably the most precious resource on Earth, and yet we often value and manage it extremely poorly. Typically, the price of water reflects a limited number of costs, from treatments to transport, but its actual value is far greater. The fact that the prices of water are low and subsidized is important to…
Over the last few decades, we have been observing an increase in the number of couples that choose to be childfree. This means that, even if they could have children, they choose not to, due to several reasons. This phenomenon is spreading especially in the USA and Europe (Italy has the highest rate of couples…
There is no doubt that social movements played a significant role in building the kind of society we live in today. Let’s, for example, think about women’s right to vote, which was obtained thanks to the “Women Suffrage’s Movement”. The study of social movements developed at an unprecedented pace in the 1980s. Social movements and protests,…
International Women’s Day is a yearly celebration all around the world in honour of women, and the date of this anniversary is March 8th. The origin of this celebration is quite controversial. Some people say that it is meant to recall the many workers of the New York Cotton textile industry that died in the…
The reasons behind this wage disparity are many and they are a consequence of the way women are perceived by the society they belong to. The first reason is occupational segregation, as women’s and men’s economic status is influenced by the sectors in which they work. The majority of women work in lower-level sectors, such…
