In less than two years, Belgium has become a trailblazer and a pioneer when it comes to bringing prostitution from the underground and into the legal economy. Last week, the country’s parliament adopted a law that codified the labour status of sex workers, allowing them to enter into contracts and enjoy benefits such as guaranteed…
The development of a Pesticide Use Information Framework (the Framework) will help ensure the PMRA’s assessment of risk to human health and the environment, specifically pesticide exposure characterization, is informed by the real-world pesticide use information. It will also serve to inform value assessments, and development of risk management options…
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. should publicly endorse the Supreme Court ruling that red-tagging is a threat to a person”s life, liberty, or security, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday…
In man’s centuries-long quest to understand issues with the human brain, some scientists have chosen the more abrupt route—go at it with a scalpel. Thankfully, lobotomies are significantly more rare today. But for a time, they occurred at epidemic-level rates. While some studies showed temporary relief or help from different psychological conditions…
Eighteen people were killed and 32 wounded on Friday when at least five rockets fell on camps sheltering displaced people around the eastern Congolese city of Goma, the U.N. humanitarian agency OCHA said,
People for millennia have suffered from the painful foot deformity that may be the result of a uniquely human toe. Here’s why—and what you can do to ease the pain.