By Forus
What connects a pad box in a Nigerian school, a coalition meeting in Pakistan, and a digital security workshop in Paraguay? They each address a structural barrier that limits women’s participation.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A woman exits the Constitutional Court building, in Quito, Ecuador, February 7, 2024. © 2024 Dolores Ochoa/AP Photo (Washington, DC, March 12, 2026) – Ecuador’s Constitutional Court’s ruling, made public on March 10, 2026, that people under 18 cannot automatically be refused a request to modify their gender on identity documents is an important victory for the rights of transgender youth, Human Rights Watch said today. The ruling affirms that constitutional protection cannot rest on rigid assumptions about age while ignoring adolescents’ lived realities, evolving…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Rescue forces and others at work following a strike on a primary school in Minab, Iran, February 28, 2026. © 2026 Abbas Zakeri/Mehr News/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters (Washington, DC) – Reported findings that the United States is responsible for the recent deadly school attack in Iran, and that it was based on outdated targeting data, highlight the need for reform and accountability within the US military to minimize civilian harm during conflict, Human Rights Watch said today.The New York Times reported on March 11 that an ongoing US military…
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By Tara McGee, Professor, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta
Amy Cardinal Christianson, Senior Fire Advisor, Indigenous leadership Initiative
Wildfires disproportionately impact Indigenous communities. Over the last four decades, 42 per cent of wildfire evacuations across Canada have been of Indigenous communities.
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By Annabel Hoare, PhD Candidate in Gender-Based Political Violence, Anglia Ruskin University
The recent Netflix hit series Adolescence crystallised growing public concern about the proliferation of male supremacist beliefs targeted at young men. So Inside the Manosphere, Louis Theroux’s new documentary for the same platform, arrives at a critical moment in the masculinity debate.
Inside the Manosphere sets out to explore a group of prominent “manfluencers” who promise young men status, wealth and sexual success through a worldview shaped by misogynistic and male-supremacist beliefs about gender and power.
By crafting a stylised storyline that focuses on the few…
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By Eric Lob, Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations, Florida International University
Iran’s new ruler is already a marked man.
U.S. President Donald Trump has said Mojtaba Khamenei, who replaced his slain father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as the country’s supreme leader, is an unacceptable choice and threatened…
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By Keiran Hardy, Associate Professor, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University
Rebecca Wickes, Professor of Criminology, Griffith University
Can we really create more cohesive societies by banning everything we deem to be not cohesive? It can be part of the approach, but there’s more work to do.
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By Natalie Kon-yu, Associate Professor, Creative Writing and Literary Studies, Victoria University
Emily Booth, Research fellow, University of Technology Sydney
Michael Burke, Associate professor, First Year College, Victoria University
Tom Clark, Interim Executive Dean of the First Year College, Victoria University
The emotional outbursts of MAGA men can seem spontaneous and even silly – but we should take them seriously, especially when they apply to war.
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By Daniel Baldino, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Notre Dame Australia
The visuals being used by the White House frame real victims of war as game avatars. And avatars, by definition, are not grievable.
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By Piyush Tiwari, Professor of Property, The University of Melbourne
Godwin Kavaarpuo, Lecturer in Property, The University of Melbourne
Samuelson Appau, Associate Professor of Marketing, Melbourne Business School
Social media has changed the game for real estate advertising. But it creates new risks we need to manage carefully.
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