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Informality and gender: Major absentees in the discussion on the right to work

The United Nations has proposed a human rights and business agenda as a framework for countries to take action to prevent human rights violations that some companies have committed throughout history. However, this initiative exemplifies the situation in developed countries, where labor informality, which is widely represented by women and predominates in developing countries, is not taken into account. To analyze the absence of this gender approach in the context of labor informality within the agenda, researchers of the Faculty of Law at Universidad del Rosario studied the informal mining in Colombia, a field historically related to violence and discrimination against women.

Innovation to Protect the Brains of Pollinators: Flavonoids May Help Bees Recover Their Memory

The number of bees on the planet is declining. To this critical situation, we must add that those who remain are losing their learning capabilities. Researchers of Universidad del Rosario have created a formula to protect and recover the brains of pollinators affected by exposure to pesticides.
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