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Category Justice, Equity & Society
Increasingly, democratic states and institutions are facing a combination of external and internal challenges. These challenges, impacts, and intersections are taken up by our faculty.
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![Women sit side-by-side at a row of tables sewing clothing in a factor](https://torontomuresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/p1-768x378.jpeg)
How Canadian companies can use tech to identify forced labour in their supply chains
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How corporate landlords are eroding affordable housing — and prioritizing profits over human rights – Listen, with Nemoy Lewis
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Terrorist vs. militant: The complicated language of reporting atrocities in Israel-Hamas war
![A person holds up a sign that reads India Attacked Canada's Sovereignty](https://torontomuresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2023-10-16-header-768x378.jpg)
India’s accusation of ‘terrorism’ is a ploy to hide its own human rights abuses
![A hand holding a shopping basket in a retail store](https://torontomuresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2023-10-12-header-768x378.jpg)
The rising cost of living is eroding brand loyalty as consumers seek more cost-effective alternatives
![A person in a parka walks across a snowy landscape](https://torontomuresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2023-10-04-header-768x378.jpg)
Grocery retailers are benefiting from food subsidies in Northern Canada
![a 360-degree security camera on a university campus](https://torontomuresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2023-10-03-header-768x378.jpg)
Riskier times on campuses mean we need a tool for prevention and intervention of sexual assaults
![A police officer arrests a Black man.](https://torontomuresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Conversation-headerimage-copy-768x432.jpg)
Discriminatory policing is denying Black youth their childhood
![Halifax’s Cogswell Street Interchange, built in 1969, is being redeveloped into a mixed-use residential district](https://torontomuresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/2023-09-07-2-header-768x378.jpg)
Halifax’s new development projects must not repeat the wrongs done to racialized communities
![U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen shakes hands with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng during a meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing in July 2023](https://torontomuresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/2023-08-31-header-768x378.jpg)
Why the United States will have to accept China’s growing influence and strength
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