By Amnesty International
Since December 2025, Israeli authorities have unleashed a series of unlawful measures deliberately designed to dispossess Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and to make the annexation of the territory an irreversible reality, Amnesty International said today. These decisions represent an unprecedented escalation – in scale and speed – in Israel’s project to expand illegal settlements. They facilitate the takeover of more Palestinian land, authorize a record number of new settlements, expanding existing ones, and formalize registration of land in the West Bank as…
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By Pam Jagger, Professor of Environment and Development, University of Michigan
Charles B.L. Jumbe, Professor at the Centre for Agricultural Research and Development (CARD), Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Congyi Dai, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Michigan
Ryan McCord, PhD Candidate, Duke University
Thabbie Chilongo, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Agricultural Research and Development (CARD), Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Even small solar devices that can power phone chargers and lights have made a difference in rural Malawi. Now, bigger and better solar systems are needed.
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By Sergi Basco, Profesor Agregado de Economia, Universitat de Barcelona
After the US Supreme Court ruled against President Trump’s import tariff measures, his first reaction (after harshly criticising the judges who ruled that he had exceeded his authority) was to announce another 10% global tariff. Shortly after, he threatened that the new US tariff would be 15%…
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By Miguel Ángel Gómez-Serrano, Assistant lecturer, Universitat de València
Around 44% of EU homes have at least one pet, of which over 90% are cats or dogs. While we’ve been bringing more and more pets into our lives in recent decades, the trend really shot up during the COVID pandemic. Europe’s pet population rose by an estimated 11% in 2022 to reach 340 million in total, primarily cats…
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By Shinichi Sunagawa, Associate Professor at the Department of Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Chris Bowler, Directeur du laboratoire de génomique des plantes et des algues à l'Institut de Biologie, École normale supérieure (ENS) – PSL; Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
Several years worth of findings from a floating laboratory have tapped into a well-stocked coral library of taxonomic, genetic and chemical diversity, previously unknown to Science and Medicine.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Protesters hold placards in solidarity with humanitarians who were still detained in Greece, November 18, 2021. © 2021 Hesther Ng/SOPA Images via AP Photo Led by Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders Mary Lawlor, five United Nations experts have issued a damning critique of Greece’s latest attempt to criminalize human rights defenders working to support migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers.In a letter to the Greek government, made public on February 24, the experts warn that a new migration law adopted on February 5 “would impose unfair restrictions…
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Wednesday, February 25, 2026
The following is a statement delivered by ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric to the 61st session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on 23 February 2025.
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By Stacey Pizzino, Lecturer, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland
Michael Waller, Senior Lecturer Biostatistics, The University of Queensland
According to the world’s largest study of casualties from these hidden weapons, women were much more likely to die from their injuries than men.
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By Josh Roose, Associate Professor of Politics, Deakin University
The attacks in Sydney are not merely an abhorrent anomaly. Incidents like these are foreshadowing future, more severe violence, unless something is done to curb it.
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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
While Morgan and YouGov polls put Labor well ahead of the Coalition after preferences, Essential puts the Coalition ahead for the first time since the 2025 election.
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