By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Benin bronzes looted in the past and returned to Nigeria by Germany are examined during a handing over ceremony in Abuja, December 20, 2022. © 2022 Olamikan Gbemiga/AP Photo Last week, German federal, state, and local authorities adopted Common Guidelines on the handling of cultural assets and human remains from colonial contexts. Despite the welcome efforts to regulate the returns cultural belongings and ancestral remains from colonial contexts, the guidelines appear to go out of the way to distance such returns from international human rights standards on colonial…
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By Lewis Faulk, Associate Professor of Public Administration and Policy, American University
Mirae Kim, Associate Professor of Nonprofit Studies, George Mason University
About one-third of U.S. nonprofit service providers experienced a disruption in their government funding in the first half of 2025.
That’s what we found when we teamed up with Urban Institute researchers to collect nationally representative survey data from 2,737 nonprofits across the…
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By Peter A. Joy, Professor of law, Washington University in St. Louis
Is former FBI Director James Comey’s attempt to get his prosecution thrown out a legal slam-dunk? It may look like that to the public, but it’s not.
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By Jewel Scott, Assistant Professor of Nursing Science, University of South Carolina
Emerging adulthood – the life stage that unfolds around ages 18-25 – is full of major transitions, such as starting college or learning a trade, making new friends and romantic connections, and generally becoming more independent.
It’s also a stage where behaviors that diminish heart health, such as spending more time sitting, consuming more fast food and using more tobacco and alcohol, become more common. In fact, only about 1 in 4 youths maintain positive health behavior patterns during the transition to…
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By Ruohao Zhang, Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics, Penn State
Huan Li, Assistant Professor of Economics, North Carolina A&T State University
Neha Khanna, Professor of Economics, Binghamton University, State University of New York
As soon as the 2018-2019 shutdown began, coal-fired power plants started emitting more particulate matter pollution. And when the inspections resumed, the levels dropped back to normal.
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By Tom McDonough, Professor of Art History, Binghamton University, State University of New York
For the original surrealists, dreaming was not a matter of idle fantasy but a tool for political and social transformation.
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By Alexander T. Englert, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Richmond
Kant’s 3 rules can offer a helpful check as to whether we are not only living well but thinking well.
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By Amnesty International
The Guinean authorities must immediately guarantee the human rights of Soguipah workers and smallholder planters affiliated with the state-owned company, and investigate widespread abuses particularly regarding workers’ right to decent work, said Amnesty International in a new report. ‘Salaries that make you cry: abuses of workers’ rights linked to Soguipah’s activities in Guinea’ reveals how […] The post Guinea: New report reveals workers’ rights abused in plantations linked to state-owned company Soguipah appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Sofía Rendo González, Investigadora predoctoral Xunta de Galicia, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Justo Arines, Catedrático de Universidad , área de especialización de Óptica y Optometría, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Nery García Porta, Profesora de optometría, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
With Halloween just around the corner, thousands will be shopping for fancy dress contact lenses to go with their costume. The appeal is clear, as their endless colours and shapes allow you to radically change how you look – who wasn’t scared by the white and yellow eyes of the girl in The Exorcist?
However, we also have to be careful. These lenses can cause serious harm – and even blindness – if we fail to take the necessary precautions.
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By Alexandra Delgado Jiménez, Investigadora Principal del Grupo de Arquitectura y Urbanismo ante las Transformaciones Sociales, Económicas y Territoriales (At-the-oUTSET), Director del Taller Avanzado de Urbanismo y profesora de Urbanismo, Universidad Nebrija
Climate change is no longer some abstract, future threat. It is now a present problem, and its impact will become exponentially worse if we fail to respond with robust adaptation and mitigation plans.
While the whole planet faces serious climate challenges, some areas are inherently more vulnerable than others. This vulnerability depends not only on geographical and ecological factors, but also on the the ability of these areas’ inhabitants to adapt.
Local communities are key to creating adaption and mitigation plans that are not only effective, but also socially just and…
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