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The Names of Both Parents
It is now a norm that women either keep their own names when they marry or hyphenate their own names with that of their spouse. And yet this norm does not yet apply to the children. But the Constitutional court in Italy is changing that. It just overturned the tradition that a child is only…
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Fighting Noise Pollution in Paris
Paris, it was discovered, is the noisiest city in Europe. It has 5.5 million people, while London or Berlin are much smaller, and this contributes to the noise level having become a public health issue. It interferes with people’s sleeping and in some cases with ordinary living such as talking or listening to music. As…
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Animals With Legal Rights
In Ecuador individual wild animals now have legal rights. It’s the first country in the world to do so. And it follows because in 2008 Ecuador became the first country to recognize that nature or Pachamama, was an entity deserving rights. That law became part of the country’s constitution and yet it wasn’t clear whether…
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