Joanna Lovatt

The Myanmar military’s coup and escalating use of violence against peaceful protestors have left many foreign businesses operating in the country wondering what to do. The bottom line is this: respect human rights, not only by preventing and mitigating harm linked to business activity, but also by ensuring that business activity is not rewarding the leaders of the coup.

Facebook makes decisions to take down, leave up, or restore content every day, and some of these decisions can be very challenging, with strong arguments for either removing or leaving up the content. Many users can disagree with these decisions, and millions are appealed each year.

Over the last few decades, plastic has made life easier for many of us. It is durable and relatively inexpensive, and in many cases, plastic devices such as IV bags and syringes have saved lives. However, the plastic production rate has skyrocketed — half of the plastic ever made has been produced in the past 15 years, and globally, only 9 percent of all plastic has been recycled.