By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A still from Jiangnan Xu's film “Friends from Jiangnan.” © Zhu Rikun Chinese authorities harassed several dozen Chinese film directors and producers, as well as their families in China, causing them to pull films from the inaugural IndieChina Film Festival in New York City, Human Rights Watch said today. On November 6, 2025, the festival’s organizer, Zhu Riku, announced that the film festival, scheduled for November 8-15, had been “suspended.”“The Chinese government reached around the globe to shut down a film festival in New York City,” said Yalkun Uluyol, China…
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By Barry Barton, Professor of Law, University of Waikato
Jennifer Campion, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Waikato
As world leaders meet for the COP30 climate summit, NZ is about to weaken the main purpose of its zero-carbon law – to ensure accountability in the long term.
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By Philipp Kastner, Senior Lecturer in International Law, The University of Western Australia
After rebel fighters captured a major city in Darfur last week, alarming reports emerged of massacres and sexual violence targeting the region’s Black population.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Ugandan security officials detain a protester during a march in support of the European Parliament resolution to stop the construction of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline in Kampala, Uganda, October 4, 2022. © 2022 REUTERS/Abubaker Lubowa On November 6, a court in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, gave the go-ahead for the trial of twelve activists, eight of whom are students. The group faces charges stemming from their protests against the planned East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), one of the largest fossil fuel infrastructure projects currently under development…
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By Susanna Klassen, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Sociology, University of Victoria
Hannah Wittman, Professor of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia
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By Ezenwa E. Olumba, Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, Aston University
The US president, Donald Trump, is threatening military action in Nigeria over what he sees as the persecution of Christians there. He has accused the Nigerian government of not doing enough to prevent radical Islamists from committing “mass slaughter” against Christians in the west African nation.
In a video posted on social media on November 5, Trump said: “Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria. Thousands and thousands of Christians are being killed. Radical Islamists…
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By Tom Vaughan, Lecturer in International Security, University of Leeds
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has said that Russia may could carry out nuclear weapons tests for the first time since the cold war.
In what appears to be a response to a statement by Donald Trump on October 30, that he had ordered the US to restart nuclear tests “on an equal basis” with…
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By Gustav Cederlöf, Associate Professor of Environmental Social Science, University of Gothenburg
Sophie Blackburn, Lecturer in human geography, University of Reading
Hours before Hurricane Melissa roared towards Cuba’s second-largest city, Santiago de Cuba, the island’s president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, announced that 735,000 people had been evacuated – one in every 15 Cubans. The storm had already smashed into Jamaica, the most powerful to ever strike the island, causing landslides, power failures and deaths.
By the time Melissa hit Cuba, it was downgraded from a category 5 to a still incredibly dangerous category 3…
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By Eva Nieto McAvoy, Lecturer in Digital Media, King's College London
Jenny Kidd, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used to preserve the voices and stories of the dead. From text-based chatbots that mimic loved ones to voice avatars that let you “speak” with the deceased, a growing digital afterlife industry promises to make memory interactive, and, in some cases, eternal.
In our research, recently published in Memory, Mind & Media, we explored what…
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By Rita Goyal, Assistant Professor, Centre for Resilient Business and Society, Coventry University
Nada Kakabadse, Professor of Policy, Governance and Ethics, Henley Business School, University of Reading
Women are increasingly occupying top leadership roles across organisations, political parties and even nations. This may seem unequivocally like a good thing. Yet, many of these roles are undertaken in precarious circumstances, with inherent risks that might make them unattractive to men.
High-profile examples illustrate this pattern. Sarah Mullally, the incoming Archbishop of Canterbury and first female leader of the Church of…
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