Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Long before the crises that followed 2011, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had already built a long and sometimes difficult history of humanitarian engagement in Libya and across its borders.
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By Amnesty International
“The act that has been done on me is still fresh in my memory. I was only seven, but it still lingers in my head. During the holiday season, I was taken to the village with my cousins. We were cut by a woman who used to live in our community. If I hadn’t undergone […] The post “Women should take the lead in the fight against FGM”: Meet Tala, Gambian survivor and activist appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
Responding to the passing of a bill by France’s parliament banning children under 15 from accessing social media and restricting the use of phones in schools, Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, said: “There is no doubt that regulating platforms to protect children is an imperative of our time. We commend states for taking social media harms seriously but rather than pursuing blanket bans, efforts should be on forcing platforms to abandon their reckless pursuit of profit to the detriment of human rights. “Building safe platforms requires a robust response. […] The…
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By Guest Contributor
In 2023, Brazil recorded 45,747 intentional violent deaths — among the highest rates in the world. Like many democracies, the country has long grappled with the issue of large-scale public support for state violence.
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By Rachel Reville, PhD Candidate, Modern History, University of Oxford
The hard work of government has begun for Andy Burnham. The new prime minister will be forced to confront a multitude of thorny issues, among which is the question of the UK’s partnership with the US. So what will the so-called “special relationship” look like in the Burnham-Trump era, and how can Burnham harness the lessons of Labour’s history?
Despite the Maga moment dominating American politics, Burnham should remember that the US has a progressive…
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By Stephan Blum, Research Associate, Institute for Prehistory and Early History and Medieval Archaeology, University of Tübingen
Warning: this article contains spoilers for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey.
Ten years at Troy. Ten more lost at sea. When Odysseus finally reaches Ithaca – in Homer’s poem and again, played by Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s new film – he doesn’t walk through the door and say who he is. He lies. He invents a stranger’s life story. He tests his wife Penelope (played by Anne Hathaway), his father, even his old nurse before he lets any of them see him as himself. For a man who has spent 20 years trying to get home, he is remarkably reluctant to arrive.
That reluctance…
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By James Wilsdon, Professor of Research Policy, Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy, UCL
If we want to be reminded what real damage to a science system looks like, we only need to glance across the Atlantic.
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By Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza, Royal Society Newton International Fellow in Palaeontology, UCL
Around 80 million years ago, a stretch of tropical coastline in what is now north-eastern Italy was lashed by monsoon rains and tropical cyclones. Those storms swept dinosaur carcasses, crocodiles, plants and river mud onto a tidal flat, where the tides and a film of microbes sealed everything away with extraordinary preservation.
My colleagues and I have published a new study that reconstructs the violent tropical climate behind the Villaggio…
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By Dipa Kamdar, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, Kingston University
Fake and diverted medicines are reaching UK patients through cloned pharmacy websites and social media – here’s how to spot them.
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By Paul Hough, Lecturer Sport and Exercise Physiology, University of Westminster
Heat can relax tired muscles and briefly improve power, but current studies do not show that i infrared saunas speed the body’s repair processes.
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