Friday, November 13, 2026
The following is a statement attributable to ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric on autonomous weapons ahead of the seventh review conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Shawan Jabarin, head of the al-Haq human rights group, at the organization's offices in the West Bank city of Ramallah, October 23, 2021. © 2021 Majdi Mohammed/AP Photo (Beirut) – Israeli authorities on November 13, 2026, imposed an international travel ban on Shawan Jabarin, the head of Al-Haq, a leading Palestinian human rights organization in the occupied West Bank. The travel ban comes in the context of increasing attacks against Palestinians and civil society groups in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Al-Haq, along with the Palestinian Centre…
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By Daria Dergacheva
With the proliferation of generative AI, disinformation and propaganda campaigns have become increasingly sophisticated. Armenia’s experience shows how they operate in a country moving away from its longstanding reliance on Russia.
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By A.R.E. Taylor, Senior Lecturer in Communications, University of Exeter
Friday the 13th turned out to be very unlucky indeed for Microsoft. A major outage of the tech giant’s services put a halt to digital communication for millions across the world.
So after UK government warnings to prepare for a possible cyber-attack, perhaps the bigger threat to the online world is simply the fragile design of internet infrastructure.
That fragility was plain to see on November 13. Emails and video calls stopped…
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By Andrew C. Manning, Visiting Professor of Carbon Cycle Science, Rochester Institute of Technology
Andrew J. Watson, Professor of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Exeter
Eric J. Morgan, Project Scientist in Geosciences, University of California, San Diego
A method for measuring the world’s crucial carbon sinks finds that the ocean’s so-far-increasing ability to help might taper off in the future.
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By Doug Jacobson, University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University
When one email service goes down, others don’t stop trying to send emails to users of the affected service. The result is snarled traffic that takes time to clear up.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image People march during a protest on violence against women in Budapest in November 2018. © 2018 Attila Kisbenedek/AFP via Getty Images On November 12, Hungary's Prime Minister Péter Magyar announced that his government intends to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combatting violence against women and domestic violence, also known as “Istanbul Convention,” as part of a comprehensive package of measures seeking to strengthen protection and dignity of women and girls. It is a welcome and timely step.In 2013, I interviewed 37-year-old Lívia from…
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By Jessica Field, Research Associate, Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester
“You don’t care. You only pretend to care!” an exhausted, homeless Cathy shouts at a board of welfare officials just days before her children are taken from her. It’s a scene from Cathy Come Home, the 1966 BBC drama that remains – 60 years on – a touchstone for discussions on homelessness.
Written by Jeremy Sandford and directed by Ken Loach, the television play follows Cathy and her husband Reg, who are expecting a child when Reg loses his income through injury. The couple then lose their home, the first…
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By Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Director of Behavioral Science & Policy Initiative, Schaeffer Institute of Public Policy & Government Service, USC Price School of Public Policy, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Gale Sinatra, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Education and Psychology, University of Southern California
Phrases like ‘climate crisis,’ ‘climate emergency’ or ‘climate justice’ used at COP31 might seem to escalate urgency, but a large survey shows they don’t help and may actually hurt.
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By Renaud Foucart, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University
Andy Burnham’s consumer focus might cut fossil fuel use in the long-term, if policies force prices of climate friendly options down.
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