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The Gillard Government's move to amend legislation to allow offshore processing will require changes to both the Migration Act and the Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act .

The work and achievements of two of the UK's leading feminist intellectuals will be celebrated at a special event at the university this week.

A decade after the global tragedy of 9/11, a groundbreaking pan-European research project led by the University of Birmingham is calling for increased accountability and tougher legal restrictions on surveillance and detection technologies.

Sept. The waning of American apartheid? Residential segregation declines in U.S. metros ANN ARBOR, Mich.—The ideal of equal housing opportunities is closer to becoming a reality in most major U.S. metro areas, according to a University of Michigan researcher.

The Federal Government's planned asylum seeker swap deal with Malaysia has been blocked by a High Court ruling.

University of Manchester researchers have developed a new scoring system that can better predict how long patients with advanced cancer are likely to survive than current prognosis methods. The study, carried out with colleagues at St George's, University of London, and published on the British Medical Journal's website, will provide clinicians with extra tools to predict how long patients have to live.

Aug. AUSTIN, Texas — Embedding advertisements in violent video games leads to lower brand recall and negative brand attitudes suggesting advertisers should think twice about including such ads in a media campaign, according to researchers at The University of Texas at Austin. Women in particular responded negatively to ads placed in violent video games.

Victims who suffer violence at the hands of a spouse, boyfriend or girlfriend, or other intimate partner aren't only brutalized physically; they also suffer disproportionately higher rates of mental health distress, according to a new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

In the aftermath of 9/11, Mary Marshall Clark began noticing that a deep stillness had fallen over New York City.

Were the police too "soft" in their handling of the city riots earlier this month? Did officers in the Met get too close to their in News International? In an influential new article, Professor Martin Innes considers the police response to a summer of upheaval.

An older man whose female partner is chummy with his pals is more likely to suffer from sexual dysfunction than men who keep their confidantes to themselves, reports a new Cornell study. However, this link disappeared among the oldest men in the study. Benjamin Cornwell, assistant professor of sociology, and co-author Edward Laumann of the University of Chicago, analyzed data on 3,005 adults aged 57 to 85 from the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project.

PA 253/11 Can bearing a name which sounds different or 'foreign' — regardless of your actual ethnic background — be enough to make you the target of racism?

The long war leading to South Sudan's recent independence began during the powerful El Niño drought of 1983. In continuing hostilities, southern fighters display a grenade launcher captured from northern Sudanese, July 2011. (Trevor Snapp/Global Post) In the first study of its kind, researchers have linked a natural global climate cycle to periodic increases in warfare.

Aug. AUSTIN, Texas — Texas women who hold concealed handgun licenses (CHLs) are motivated to do so by feelings of empowerment and a need for self-defense, according to new research to be presented at the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.

Aug. AUSTIN, Texas — The decline in active memberships in civic groups, fraternal organizations and other local associations is greater than the increase in checkbook memberships, according to new research to be presented at the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.

A series of archaeological finds in Tasmania have shown how colonial guards secretly eased the brutal treatment of women prisoners in 1850s Australia, rewriting our understanding of life inside Britain's colonial prisons Down Under.

Fewer seniors but more children are poor since the War on Poverty began more than 40 years ago. Also, despite persistent efforts in both the public and private sectors, poverty rates in the U.S. have remained stubbornly the same since the mid-1960s.

Education is a frequently cited factor in wage differences between low- and high-paid workers. But a new study co-authored by a UW sociologist shows that unions have as much a role in equalizing earnings, and that balancing force influences pay for nonunion workers. "For generations, unions were the core institution advocating for a more equitable wage distribution,” said Jake Rosenfeld , UW assistant professor of sociology, in a news release.

PA 241/11 Free speech online has just as much legal protection as it does in traditional media, according to a United Nations decision guided by a University of Nottingham academic.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced today the names of the 2011 Vanier Canadian Graduate Scholarship recipients, including 25 McGill-based researchers from Canada and around the world.

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For just more than a year, U.S. Army Col.

The ACT Human Rights Act (HRA) should include explicit guarantees of economic, social and cultural rights, according to report prepared by Australian National University and University of New South Wales researchers.

PA 227/11 Events in Norway over the last few days will prove to be a watershed moment in how we approach, and seek to understand, far right groups and their ideology, according to a leading expert in far-right politics at The University of Nottingham. Matthew Goodwin argues that the challenge from right-wing extremism and anti-Muslim sentiment has been dismissed as irrelevant for too long - glossed over in favour of alternative forms of extremism.

A Professor of Semitic Studies from The University of Manchester is one of only 38 academics to be elected a Fellow of the British Academy at its Annual General Meeting on 21 July.

A person's high school class rank is good for more than just getting into a prestigious college. A new study by a pair of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers links class rank — a cumulative measure of responsible performance — with survival throughout adulthood.

University of Melbourne students will be investigating how cities can be more gender 'inclusive' this week, as part of a travelling design studio to Montreal, Canada.

John F. Szwed , professor of music and jazz studies at Columbia University, has been appointed director of the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia.

PA221/11 A University of Nottingham professor has been appointed as the new Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission.

Zackie Achmat Zackie Achmat is a political activist, most widely known as founder and a chairperson of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and for his work on behalf of people living with HIV/ AIDS in South Africa.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—World population will reach 7 billion this year, prompting new concerns about whether the world will soon face a major population crisis.

Women experiencing domestic violence want their GPs to raise the issue with them, a new study by researchers at the University of Bristol has found.

A new University report commissioned by the RSPCA has called on the Government to engage with young dog owners and gather more evidence on growing concerns about the anti-social use of dogs.

After rowing across the Atlantic last year, UBSport staff member Norman Beech, Manager of the Raymond Priestley Centre, Coniston embarked upon another challenge.

Alcohol and drugs are fuelling homicide and suicide rates in Northern Ireland, a new independent report by University of Manchester researchers has found, with alcohol appearing to be a key factor fo

Domestic violence in pregnancy is linked to depression and childhood behavioural problems, suggests new research by scientists from the Health Services and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) at King's. Domestic violence has significant health consequences and it is estimated that around 24% of women have suffered from it.

The University rugby team has made new friends in a successful tour of Brazil. The team played four matches in Brazil, including two test fixtures against the Brazilian national team, ranked 28th in the world.

The University of Melbourne and the Australian Catholic University will develop a new website to help Forgotten Australians, former child migrants and members of the Stolen Generations find their records and reconnect with their pasts.

Survivors of domestic violence who are convicted of crimes when protecting themselves from abuse often face long prison sentences, according to a new report on the barriers to justice faced by women survivor-defendants in New York state.