How Ukrainian refugees can transform economies, empowering African women, and why Russia is liable for damage costs from its invasion.
Strategies for advancing African women in academia Across sub-Saharan Africa, women constitute only 24% of academic staff and 2.5% of vice chancellors. Rebecca Afua Klege shares several ways to boost African women’s participation in academia, including flexible work environments that accommodate childcare, policies to curb sexual harassment, and female mentorship programs. Read more | Russia can be made to pay for Ukraine damage now “Russia has committed on a massive scale what under U.S. law is considered an ‘intentional tort’: unprovoked violence, which requires at a minimum that the aggressor pay damages for human suffering, deaths, and property losses,” argues Robert E. Litan in his recent op-ed. Read more | Help support Brookings with a donation Brookings is committed to making its high-quality, independent policy research free to the public. Please consider making a contribution today to our Annual Fund to support our experts' work. | The conclusions and recommendations of any Brookings publication are solely those of its author(s), and do not reflect the views of the Institution, its management, or its other scholars. | |