By Amnesty International
Reacting to the decision by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to strike 879 applications against Russia from its list of cases on grounds of their lesser importance to case law and a lack of resources for their examination, Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia Director, said: “The European Court of […] The post Russia: ECtHR decision to strike out more than 800 complaints denies victims truth, justice and reparation and should be reversed appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Deniz Vatansever, Research Professor, Fudan University; University of Cambridge
Emmanuel A Stamatakis, Lead, Cognition and Consciousness Imaging Group, Division of Anaesthesia, University of Cambridge
Xinyu Liang, Visiting Researcher, University of Cambridge; Fudan University
Stand in front of Turner’s Sun Rising Over Water (1825-30) and something odd tends to happen. The painting holds you, even though observers might struggle to say why. Maybe it is the colour, the balance, the composition, or the strange stillness the artwork seems to carry.
Whatever it is, you feel it long before you can explain why. And the stranger next to you, looking at the same canvas with the same awe in their eyes, very likely feels it too.
We often say that…
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By Andrew Charlton-Perez, Head of School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences and Professor of Meteorology, University of Reading
Ed Hawkins, Professor of Climate Science, University of Reading
Even with today’s forecasting technology, D-Day would not have been an easy call as portrayed in the new movie, Pressure.
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By Sarah Salih, Reader in English, King's College London
Entering The Raw and the Cooked at the Saatchi Gallery in London, you are faced with a single enormous painting that occupies the whole of the opposite wall. The Punishment of Richard Roose (2026) is a magnificently anachronistic project: a museum-scale picture of a fairly obscure episode of English history.
Stiff, stylised, life-sized figures stand against a plain background in this painting by Harry Jones London, curator of the exhibition.
At its centre, a boiling cauldron emitting a toxic cloud of steam is the imminent destination for the unfortunate figure standing beside…
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By Joshua Garland, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Lund University
Over the summer, Europe provided a stark new set of images of climate change. Wildfires raced across forests and grasslands, rivers and reservoirs dried up in droughts and extreme heat disrupted everyday life.
Instead of the familiar photographs of people enjoying days at the beach, coverage of heatwaves increasingly comes with images of their consequences.
Moreover, issues such as drought and the knock-on challenges for water conservation…
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By Roman Pavlyuchenko, Lecturer in Marketing, University of Bath
This re-release looks less like nostalgia and more like surrender: a bid to escape the multiverse mess and make things coherent again.
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By Manal Mohammed, Senior Lecturer, Medical Microbiology, University of Westminster
The discovery that a mosquito species capable of transmitting the Zika, dengue and chikungunya viruses is breeding in east London may sound alarming, particularly to people living nearby. Yet finding the species is several steps removed from finding evidence that any of these viruses are circulating locally.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has confirmed that Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and larvae have been found at residential properties in east London. This…
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By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor, The Conversation
Our team of researchers travelled through some of Syria’s devastated cities to find out how people are rebuilding their lives after the civil war.
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By Sam Power, Lecturer in Politics, University of Bristol
Reform UK’s national conference has been rocked by allegations that senior members of the party plotted to circumvent rules on political donations. The reports centre on two payments – one real and one suggested, but both important. The two Reform staff members at the centre of the investigation have been suspended.
The apparent plans were captured in a sting, filmed in London and Clacton by undercover journalists from Verbatim Investigations and broadcast by Channel 4 News. The first allegation from the film is that James Orr, who was Reform’s…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Cambodian Senate building, the Solidarity Palace, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, August 21, 2026. © 2026 AP Photo/Heng Sinith (Bangkok, September 4, 2026) – The Cambodian government should withdraw proposed legal amendments that would drastically reduce opposition party representation in top positions on local councils, Human Rights Watch said today. On August 20, 2026, the Cambodian National Assembly, which is dominated by the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), unanimously passed amendments to the Law on the Administration and Management of Commune/Sangkat. The…
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