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From pandemics to floods: Inequality as a comorbidity

By Teresa Kramarz / June 11, 2020

Similar to the COVID-19 pandemic, environmental disasters hit marginalized communities the hardest. Not just because they are more exposed to risk, but because of social vulnerabilities and inequalities that prevent them from responding to these ...
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The Injustices of Zika

By Pía Riggirozzi / June 14, 2017

Outbreaks of communicable diseases in the developing world are bad enough from a health perspective. But they also have serious implications for social justice, because they exacerbate longstanding human-rights crises, including by undermining already-weak public-services provision and deepening existing ...
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