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2 Dec 2020, 8:05 am by Henrietta Worthington and April Lord
By Henrietta Worthington and April Lord As we previously reported, the popularity of the sustainability linked loan and the green loan have snowballed in recent years. [read post]
By Matthew Oresman and Henrietta Worthington Hydrogen is gaining global recognition for its potential as a key player in the energy transition. [read post]
2 Jul 2020, 10:15 am by Lisa Larrimore Ouellette
Another prominent example is the story of Henrietta Lacks, a young Black woman undergoing treatment for cervical cancer whose tissue samples were taken and commercialized without her knowledge.To be sure, we do not mean to ignore here the vast history of racial discrimination in medical treatment more generally. [read post]
21 Apr 2020, 8:00 am by Unknown
Blog posts & press:As COVID-19 Pandemic Continues, Forcibly Displaced Children Need More Support Than Ever:Joint Statement by Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director, and Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR, April 2020) [text]Two Years after Zero Tolerance, More Revelations about the Failures of Family Separation (Immigration Impact Blog, April 2020) [text]Reports:Children in Migration in 2019 (EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, March 2020) [text]Children on the… [read post]
By Matthew Oresman and Henrietta Worthington In January, the EU launched itself into the new decade with the unveiling of its Green Deal: an extensive plan of ambitious climate targets and reforms culminating in a carbon neutral Europe by 2050. [read post]
6 Apr 2020, 9:05 pm by A. Rahman Ford
The repercussions of using human stem cells in medical research and practice could be the most seismic since Henrietta Lacks and her versatile HeLa cells. [read post]
In their recent opinion piece, “Turning oil rigs into reefs: A missed opportunity,” colleagues Chris Harrison and  Henrietta Worthington discuss why the Gulf of Mexico’s “rigs to reefs” approach has not been adopted in the UKCS. [read post]
4 Jan 2020, 10:40 pm by Staycie R. Sena
” 32-year-old Henrietta Bush, whose acquaintance with the alleged victim was not made clear in the reports, has been accused of responding to the holiday wishes using her fists to pummel the woman on her head. [read post]
1 Jan 2020, 2:19 pm
(Pix ©Larry Catá Backer, La Habana Cuba 2017)Every religion connects the structures of divinity to the human communities around which their worship is structured and social, political, economic, and cultural communities are organized. [read post]
11 Nov 2019, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
Oxford University Press has published Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America (2019), by Caleb McDaniel (Rice University): A description from the Press:CreditBorn into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. [read post]
1 May 2019, 9:05 pm by Philip E. Rubin
These unintended consequences include: excessive attention to minimal-risk research; possible misapplication of the regulations—also known as “mission creep”—to areas such as journalism and oral history; problems with the consent process; the complexity of multi-site experiments; and the appropriate gathering and use of physical materials like cells and other biospecimens, as discussed in Rebecca Skloot’s book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. [read post]
1 Jan 2019, 3:12 pm
(Pix CiberCuba Jan 1, 2019)Every religion connects the structures of divinity to the human communities around which their worship is structured and social, political, economic, and cultural communities are organized. [read post]
9 Oct 2018, 5:54 am by Associated Press
Johns Hopkins University and the family of Henrietta Lacks say a new building on the school's campus in East Baltimore will be named after the woman whose cells were taken without her consent and widely used in revolutionary research. [read post]
3 Aug 2018, 11:53 am
Counterfactual (Hi)Stories of International Law Henrietta Zeffert, The Lake Home: International Law and the Global Land Grab Alessandro Chechi, Non-State Actors and the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention in Asia: Achievements, Problems, and Prospects [read post]
5 Jul 2018, 11:23 am by Andrew Hamm
” In her acceptance speech, Ginsburg spoke of two Jewish women raised in the United States “whose humanity and bravery inspired me in my growing up years” – Emma Lazarus and Henrietta Szold. [read post]
11 May 2018, 5:37 am by Associated Press
A portrait of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were taken without her consent and widely used in groundbreaking research, will be installed at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. [read post]