Mega-damming, pollution and depletion endanger rivers worldwide. Meanwhile, modernist imaginaries of ordering ‘unruly waters humans’ have become cornerstones hydraulic-bureaucratic capitalist development. They separate hydro/social worlds, sideline river-commons cultures, deepen socio-environmental injustices. But myriad new water justice movements (NWJMs) proliferate: rooted, disruptive, trans...

Most people can describe at least one instance of how alcohol and drug addiction has had a negative impact on their own lives or the lives of people they love. Children today, regardless of age or ethnicity, grow up in a society where access to drugs and alcohol is extremely easy. Parents who misuse alcohol and drugs also influence how their children perceive and understand the use of alcohol a...

This paper presents a normative framework for evaluating the moral and epistemic exploitation that online content moderation workers experience while working social media companies (often as subcontractors or Mechanical Turk workers). I argue current labor model of commercial (CCM) is exploitative in ways inflict profound harm injustices on workers. detailed account enables us to see more clear...

This article examines the dialectics of wrongful life and wrongful birth claims in Israel from 1986 until 2012. In May 2012 Israeli Supreme Court declared that while wrongful birth claims were still permitted, wrongful life claims were no longer accepted in a court of law. The article examines the conditions that allowed for and supported the expansion of wrongful life/birth claims until 2012. ...

BACKGROUND With the exception of key 'proven successes' in global health, the current regime of global health governance can be understood as transnational and national actors pursuing their own interests under a rational actor model of international cooperation, which fails to provide sufficient justification for an obligation to assist in meeting the health needs of others. An ethical commitm...

Over the past decades the mortality rate in the United States has decreased, and life expectancy has increased. Yet a number of recent studies have drawn Americans' attention to the fact that racial and ethnic disparities persist in health care. It is clear that the U.S. health care system, which is the envy of the world, is not only flawed by basic injustices, but may be the cause of both inju...

This article examines hidden costs of three prominent mineral supply chain ‘solutions’ that respectively aim to create ‘conflict-free’ minerals, curtail corruption, and reduce mercury pollution. Our analysis underscores the heterogeneous ways in which global capitalism shapes regulatory injustices spanning multiple scales, illustrating how ‘clean’ schemes can hide inequitable territorial econom...

Social movements of every stripe have mobilized law in order to confront contemporary injustices and redetermine social experiences expectations. The multiple disciplinary literatures that track evaluate these strategies provide a rich picture legal political mobilization at different scales relative successes. This article draws together the shared concern for strategic litigation labour schol...

In recent years, research into and concern over algorithmic fairness bias in machine learning systems has grown significantly. It is vital to make sure that these are fair, impartial, do not support discrimination or social injustices since algorithms becoming more prevalent decision-making processes across a variety of disciplines. This abstract gives general explanation the idea fairness, dif...