By Amnesty International
In response to the Israeli military’s arrest of Palestinian farmer and land defender Ghassan Najjar during a pre-dawn raid on the village of Burin south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, on 27 October, Erika Guevara Rosas, Amnesty International’s Senior Director for Research, Policy, Advocacy and Campaigns, said: “Israeli authorities must immediately release […] The post Israel/OPT: Israel must immediately release Palestinian farmer and land defender Ghassan Najjar appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband making a statement on Israel-Palestine in the House of Commons, London, United Kingdom, September 8, 2026. © 2026 Press Association via AP Photo The UK has significantly expanded its Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime, allowing the government, for the first time, to impose targeted sanctions on individuals and entities involved in war crimes. The new powers were approved by parliament yesterday.The previous framework, adopted in 2020, did not allow for such sanctions, providing, instead, for targeted sanctions only for certain serious…
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By Grace Jennings-Edquist, Executive Producer, Podcasts, The Conversation
Justin Bergman, International Affairs Editor, The Conversation
The young men and Hispanic and Latino voters who helped propel Donald Trump to his presidential victory in 2024 swung sharply towards the Democrats in the midterm elections, contributing to the historic defeat for Republicans.
Charles Hunt, an associate professor of political science at Boise State University in Idaho, tells The…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
How big is the threat posed by One Nation to the Nationals? And can the party’s past predict its future?
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By Bogdan Księżopolski, Head of the Institute of Computer Science, Head of Cybersecurity Department, Kozminski University
Hackers have stolen around US$6.3 billion (£4.7 billion) from the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, most of which was taken in under an hour. According to Binance, the attack exploited systems and individuals with the authority to carry out transactions involving such large sums.
Such vulnerabilities exist everywhere; statistics show that people and the systems they directly use, including their personal computers, remain…
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By Aaron Thierry, PhD Candidate, Social Science, Cardiff University
Mario Veen, Senior Lecturer, Psychology, University of Applied Sciences Utrecht
A Dutch family doctor called Tibor Poelmann posted a petition on an online forum for GPs in 2021. He wanted their pension fund to stop investing in oil and gas. It quickly gathered 1,200 signatures.
Three years later the fund, which looks after €10 billion (£8.4 billion) for 25,000 doctors, decided to sell all its fossil fuel investments. The push came from the doctors themselves, through…
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By Jaid Debrah-Donkor, PhD Candidate, Blood Safety & Virology (PrEP/GBMSM), University of Oxford
Prep can make HIV harder to detect if an infection occurs. Clear donation guidance can help protect donors and people receiving blood.
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By Harsh Trivedi, Teaching Associate French, School of Languages, Arts and Societies., University of Sheffield
Although separated by centuries, these two epics pose dilemmas that separate the morality of the husband from the duty of the leader.
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By Joseph Bohbot, Géographe, Sorbonne Université
Masks that were a thing of the not so distant pandemic past are making a comeback on the streets. They now serve a dual purpose: protecting protesters from tear gas and covering up their faces.
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By Amnesty International
Responding to the 10-year sentence handed to Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong for “colluding with foreign forces”, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director Sarah Brooks said: “The Hong Kong authorities’ persecution of Joshua Wong continues with this latest national security conviction, which cruelly – and perhaps deliberately – comes mere months before he would have been […] The post Hong Kong: Cruel Joshua Wong sentence a grim reminder of city’s disdain for human rights appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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