Thursday, July 2nd 2026
From high participation costs and restrictions on Palestinian athletes – to bans on Muslim women wearing hijabs – racism continues to shape who gets to participate in sport, a new UN report published on Thursday has found.
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By Amnesty International
Tunisian authorities must immediately overturn racist and xenophobic policies that have systematically excluded refugees and asylum seekers from protection, restore access to asylum procedures, halt unlawful collective expulsions and other forced returns, and stop repressing civil society organizations assisting refugees and asylum seekers, Amnesty International said today. Since 2023, the Tunisian government has subjected refugees and asylum seekers, particularly Black people, to pervasive and serious human […] The post Tunisia: Refugees and asylum seekers trapped in cycle of abuse after…
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By Amnesty International
Responding to the caning of an unmarried couple in the Indonesian province of Aceh for kissing and livestreaming it on social media, Amnesty International’s Co-Regional Director Montse Ferrer said: “Today’s public caning of a young man and woman simply for kissing is a horrifying act of discrimination, and a grim reminder of the enduring human […] The post Indonesia: Caning of unmarried couple for kissing on TikTok violates prohibition of torture appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
Reacting to the decision by Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger to deposit formal notifications of withdrawal from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Marceau Sivieude, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for West and Central Africa, said: “This decision by the governments of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger threatens to deny thousands of victims the possibility of truth, justice and reparations. For more than a decade, Amnesty International has documented crimes under international law committed against civilians during conflicts in each of these countries. Many of these crimes could fall within…
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By Lindsey Earner-Byrne, Professor of Contemporary Irish History, Trinity College Dublin
Janet Greenlees, Associate Professor of Health History, Glasgow Caledonian University
In a religious culture rooted in shame, up to half a million children in the UK and Ireland were put up for adoption without their mothers’ consent.
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By Gemma Ware, Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
El Niño has begun and forecasters predict a more than 60% chance that the naturally occurring phenomenon could become a very strong, or super El Niño later in 2026.
El Niño begins with warmer water in the Pacific Ocean near the equator and can have a cascade of dramatic effects on the world’s weather.
But what chain of events has to happen for high temperatures in the Pacific to translate into severe floods, droughts and storms around the world? And what role does climate change play in El Niño?…
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By Sarah Esegbona-Adeigbe, Midwifery Lecturer, London South Bank University
In many cultures, the placenta is more than tissue left over after birth. It may be understood as spiritually linked to the baby, treated as a companion or sibling, and buried to protect the child or connect them to family and land.
Yet in many maternity settings, what happens to the placenta after birth may receive little discussion unless a woman already knows she can ask to take it home.
For my doctoral research on migrant…
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By Andrea Loux Jarman, Senior Lecturer in Law, Bournemouth University
The Trump administration wants to rid America’s naitonal monuments and museums of what they see as ‘woke’ interpretations of US history.
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By Alexander Bowles, Glasstone Research Fellow, Plant Science, University of Oxford
Hidden beneath the water’s surface is a botanical world that is among nature’s most innovative and ecologically important.
As I highlighted in a recent paper, an extraordinary range of adaptations have evolved in aquatic plants for life beneath the water’s surface. Some flower underwater, others capture animals in ingenious traps. Here are seven facts that show how these remarkable organisms challenge our assumptions about what plants are and how they survive.
Many people think of plants…
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By Cary Foo, PhD Student, Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo, University of Waterloo
Luke Potwarka, Associate Professor, Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo
Canada co-hosting the World Cup and its national team’s success is an opportunity to explore how people living in multicultural regions decide who to support.
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