By Amnesty International
This month marks 60 years since the UN General Assembly adopted the International Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), one of the first foundational international human rights treaties. The way the story is often told is that Western countries gifted human rights to the world and are the sole guardians of it. It may come as a surprise for some, then, […] The post 60 years ago, the world tried to outlaw racial discrimination. Global action is still needed appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Head of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan Ali Karimli (C) and his supporters hold an unauthorized rally to demand the right to freedom of assembly, in Baku, Azerbaijan, October 19, 2019. © 2019 Aziz Karimov/Reuters Azerbaijani authorities have intensified their long-running crackdown on the opposition Azerbaijan Popular Front Party, building on years of politically motivated prosecutions and intimidation. In recent months, authorities have increasingly targeted the party’s leadership.On December 19, a court sentenced Murad Sultan, a senior party official, to…
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By Ugo Arbieu, Chercheur postdoctoral, Université Paris-Saclay
Franck Courchamp, Directeur de recherche CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay
Animals feature in sports club logos and become mascots, but their actual populations are declining. What if we turned this sporting attachment into concrete action?
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By Regan Lipes, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and English, MacEwan University
In 2020, streaming platform Amazon Prime released Hunters, a thriller mystery about apprehending and eliminating Nazi war criminals living incognito in the United States.
The 18-episode, two-season series, starring Hollywood legend Al Pacino, depicts one particularly haunting scene where a concentration camp guard plays…
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By Milena Esser, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Biology, McMaster University
The disinfectants we trust to protect us from microbes may also inadvertently help those microbes evolve to become more resistant to them.
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By Hussein Boon, Principal Lecturer, Music, University of Westminster
Andrew J. Green, Lecturer in the Anthropology of Music, King's College London
Chris Waugh, Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology, Manchester Metropolitan University
Douglas Schulz, Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology, University of Bradford
Ellis Jones, Lecturer in Music and Management, University of Leeds
Eva Dieteren, PhD researcher in Gender and Popular Music, Kingston University
Glenn Fosbraey, Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Winchester
Julia Toppin, Senior Lecturer, Music Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, University of Westminster
Samuel Murray, Lecturer in Music Management, University of Leeds
Stephen Ryan, Course Director, MA in Songwriting, University of Limerick
With Something Good, the arts and culture newsletter from The Conversation, we aim to cut through the noise and recommend the very best in new releases every fortnight. And what a soundtrack this year’s newsletters have had. From Lily Allen’s devastating breakup album West End Girl to Rosalía’s genre-defying LUX,…
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By Ruth Barton, Fellow Emeritus in Film Studies, Trinity College Dublin
Barry Langford, Professor of Film Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London
Edward White, PhD Candidate in Psychology, Kingston University
Laura O'Flanagan, PhD Candidate, School of English, Dublin City University
Rachel Stuart, Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Deviant Identities, Brunel University of London
In no particular order, here are The Conversation’s top five films of 2025 as reviewed by our experts.
1. One Battle After Another
The latest film from director Paul Thomas Anderson follows Bob (Leonardo DiCaprio), an ageing hippie hero and a relic of a fictional noughties brigade, the French 75. Led by his lover Perfidia Beverley Hills (Teyana Taylor), they robbed banks, bombed buildings and liberated detention centres in the name of their ideology of “free borders, free choices, free from fear”.
Left to bring up their daughter, Willa (Chase Infiniti), Bob spends…
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By Lori Hoy, Researcher in Leisure, Tourism, and Hospitality, Leeds Beckett University
Luxury pet pampering packages at hotels, menus with dog-friendly roast dinners and £6,000 animal-friendly charter flights. Pet travel isn’t just a trend, it’s something of a transformation. This is the “pawprint economy” – and it’s booming.
Globally, the pet industry is projected to reach US$500 billion (£375 billion) by 2030, with pet travel services alone expected…
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By Tessa Whitehouse, Reader in 18th-century Literature and Director of Queen Mary Centre for Religion and Literature, Queen Mary University of London
Inés Gregori Labarta, Lecturer in Creative Writing, Lancaster University
James Miller, Senior Lecturer, School of Creative and Cultural Industries, Kingston University
Jenni Ramone, Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Global Literatures, Nottingham Trent University
Leigh Wilson, Professor of English Literature, University of Westminster
Prathiksha Betala, PhD Researcher in Feminist Futurities, Leeds Beckett University
Reading is very subjective, but one thing most book lovers can agree on is that 2025 was a notable year for fresh, inventive, affecting storytelling. Books translated from their original language are proving increasingly popular as readers seek out global perspectives beyond their own, as evidenced in this year’s International Booker win, Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, which is included here.
We also bring you five other novels our academic experts have chosen as their favourites this year. From a Mrs Dalloway for the service economy, to a dreamlike encounter between people across time,…
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By Anne Cronin, PhD Candidate, Medicine, University of Limerick
Anthony Kelly, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Limerick
Across GP surgeries and hospitals, as migration increases and health systems strain, doctors are turning to an untested helper: Google Translate.
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