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Universal healthcare? Healthcare universalism has increased over time, with the world Healthcare Universalism Index (HUI) value increasing by nearly 20% from 0.395 to 0.472 between 1995 and 2017 – seemingly contradicting dominant narratives around the mar

Oxford researchers' index shows international healthcare systems becoming more universal

Russian protestor against the war in Ukraine. Credit: Shutterstock

Expert Comment: Economic sanctions are not likely immediately to shift Russian opinion against Putin

colleagues in various parts of the country therefore spend their entire days sheltered in basements and makeshift bomb shelters with hundreds of others. They can leave only for a few short minutes each day to get some fresh air and exercise – and, most im

Expert Comment: How ordinary Ukrainian families are suffering under Russian shells

in November 2013, tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in Kyiv, Ukraine’s thousand-year old capital city, to protest at the then President Viktor Yanukovych’s sudden decision to abandon plans to sign a free trade agreement with the European

Expert Comment: Putin’s war - How did we get here? ....Ukraine 2014

Refugees from Ukraine

Expert Comment: The UK is failing to meet its obligations to refugees from Ukraine

Yes, the question is little bit ‘how have we gotten here’ and how can it ever be morally permissible to threaten to do something, that it would never actually be morally permissible to do? That is the paradox that we have to grapple with. I think at the m

Moral questions - and answers - around helping Ukraine, nuclear deterrents and self-defence

The Oxford team, whose Covid parenting guidance was downloaded some 210 million during the pandemic, has been working with international partners to put together the help

Ukraine crisis: new research-led support for 'hero' parents and caregivers

Over the last 20 years, Young Lives has interviewed some 12,000 people, such as the young woman pictured, in four countries in the Global South, to record their lives

Two years on: Covid-19 threatens to derail the prospects for a generation in the global south - report

machine learning models aren’t autonomous. ‘They aren’t going to create new artistic movements on their own – those are PR stories

Art for our sake: artists cannot be replaced by machines – study

Technology does not have all the answers...you cannot find a technical solution to gender inequality, which is one of the drivers of vulnerability to climate change. This is why it is important to have diverse voices and different perspectives contributin

Too many words, too little action: climate justice is essential to limit climate change - IPCC chapter author

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