By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Children play at the LEA Primary and Secondary School Kuriga two days after 287 students were kidnapped, Kuriga, Kaduna State, Nigeria, March 9, 2024. © 2024 Sunday Alamba/AP Photo Various armed groups have kidnapped hundreds of people, including 287 schoolchildren, across northern Nigeria in a series of alarming attacks since late February. The kidnappings are the latest indication of Nigeria’s spiraling security crisis, as communities continue to face severe threats from Islamist insurgents like Boko Haram in the country’s northeast and other criminal groups in the…
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By Emerald L King, Lecturer in Humanities, University of Tasmania
Live-action anime adaptations have never been more popular. Yet there are many factors that make them difficult – but not impossible – to pull off.
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By Bukola Salami, Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary Aloysius Nwabugo Maduforo, Research Manager, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary Myra Kandemiri, Academic Teaching Staff Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta
Black youth in Canada experience poorer educational achievement than other children and youth, which leads to subsequent poor economic outcomes. A series of problems and barriers contribute to poor educational outcomes. These include negative attitudes of teachers towards Black youth, lack of African-Canadian history and culture in the educational curriculum, low teacher expectations of Black children, alienating school environments…
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By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
As the Trump v Biden contest shapes up ahead of the US presidential election in November, the polls are not favourable to the incumbent president.
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By Elise Klein, Associate professor, Australian National University Chay Brown, Managing Director, Her Story Consulting & Postdoctoral fellow, Australian National University Janet Hunt, Honorary Associate Professor, CAEPR, Australian National University Kayla Glynn-Braun, Director of Her Story, project coordinator at The Equality Institute, lead on U Right Sis? project, Indigenous Knowledge Zoe Staines, Senior Lecturer, The University of Queensland
To First Nations women, ‘care’ is more broad and all-encompassing than traditional definitions. We need a new approach to capturing, and appreciating, their work, paid and unpaid.
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By Sarah Vivienne Bentley, Research Scientist, Responsible Innovation, Data61, CSIRO Claire Naughtin, Principal Research Consultant in Strategic Foresight, Data61
Today, almost a quarter of Australians are digitally excluded. This means they miss out on the social, educational and economic benefits online connectivity provides. In the face of this ongoing “digital divide”, countries are now talking about a future of inclusive artificial intelligence (AI). However, if we don’t learn from current problems…
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By Stephen Gaunson, Associate Professor in Cinema Studies, RMIT University
“If you don’t know who your mob are, you don’t know who you are,” Detective Andrea “Andie” Whitford (played by Leah Purcell) is told early into the new crime series High Country. Andie has recently arrived in the lush remote Victorian High Country with her partner Helen Hartley (Sara Wiseman), both trying to put traumas behind them as they start afresh. Driving along a snaking winding road, Andie finds an isolated Mercedes Benz car. The driver’s door is wide open and the owner has left valuables behind, including keys and wallet. Doctor Haber (Francis Greenslade)…
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Monday, March 18, 2024
Iranian security forces shot hundreds of people who took part in widespread protests sparked by the death of Jina Mahsa Amini while she was in the custody of the country’s so-called morality police, top independent human rights investigators said on Monday.
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Monday, March 18, 2024
As the war in Sudan marks its one-year anniversary next month, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) on Monday warned of a staggering toll of the crisis on children, with an estimated 24 million teetering on the brink of a “generational catastrophe”.
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By Helga Dickow, Senior Researcher at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institut, Freiburg Germany, University of Freiburg
It is feared that the current violence against political opposition in Chad could signal the beginning of another long term dictatorship.
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