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(USA) Arthur C. Helton Lecture: Migrants and the U.S. Southern Border (Council on Foreign Relations)

Speakers Alfredo Corchado Author; Mexico Border Correspondent, Dallas Morning News Will Hurd Former U.S. Representative from Texas (R), U.S. House of Representatives; CFR Member Elora Mukherjee  Jerome L. Greene Clinical Professor...

(Human Trafficking) Eliminating Human Trafficking: The Role of the Private Sector (Council on Foreign Relations)

Sharan Burrow General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation Angel Gurría Secretary General, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Paul Polman Cofounder and Chair, IMAGINE; Former CEO, Unilever Presider Cynthia McFadden Senior Legal...

(Myanmar) Myanmar’s Coup: The Aftershocks (Council on Foreign Relations)

by Joshua Kurlantzick https://www.cfr.org/blog/myanmars-coup-aftershocks

(South Korea) ‘Freedom of speech’ concerns about South Korea’s new leaflet law are misplaced (East Asia Forum)

Kevin Gray is Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/02/02/freedom-of-speech-concerns-about-south-koreas-new-leaflet-law-are-misplaced/

(USA) Putting a blue collar on Biden’s trade policy (East Asia Forum)

Sourabh Gupta is resident senior fellow at the Institute for China-America Studies, Washington DC. https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/02/01/putting-a-blue-collar-on-bidens-trade-policy/

(Tunisia) Tunisia: Detecting change with remote sensing (IFAD)

https://www.ifad.org/en/web/knowledge/publication/asset/42425306

(Sierra Leone) Sierra Leone: Fighting fires with rice paddies (IFAD)

https://www.ifad.org/en/web/knowledge/publication/asset/42425394

(Uganda) Uganda country update: Feasibility study on agricultural insurance for oilseed farmers (IFAD)

https://www.ifad.org/en/web/knowledge/publication/asset/42415046

(Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning) An AI saw a cropped photo of AOC. It autocompleted her wearing a bikini (MIT Technology Review)

Karen Hao https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/29/1017065/ai-image-generation-is-racist-sexist/?truid=&utm_source=the_download&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_term=&utm_content=02-01-2021&mc_cid=fa03284a78&mc_eid=e4d30af98f

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