Past year was the ‘International Year of Sanitation’. What will it take to launch a new sanitary revolution? Exactly 150 years ago, an exceptionally hot summer reduced the Thames flowing through London to a disgusting trickle. The ‘Great Stink’ off... more

Catherine Jacqueson is Lecturer in European Union Law at the Faculty of Law in Copenhagen University, and recently Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European and Comparative Law in the Research Centre of St John’s College, Oxford. This article... more

A Call to action by the Fondation Copernic

The findings are unquestionable: independent of sector or socio-economic group, working sickens and kills. The official number of acknowledged industrial diseases has skyrocketed: 13,658 in 1996, 52,979 in... more