Friday, December 12, 2025
Delivered by Elyse Mosquini, Permanent Observer to the United Nations, at the 60th plenary meeting on strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the United Nations, including special economic assistance.
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By Fernanda Canofre
[Femicide] starts when psychological violence is minimized, when a partner’s control is normalized as jealousy, when jokes or demeaning comments about women are seen as humor.
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By Arie Perliger, Director of Security Studies and Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
Reluctance to address settler violence is the outcome of deep social, political and cultural changes, a scholar of Israeli extremist groups argues.
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By Dominic Wyse, Professor of Early Childhood and Primary Education, UCL
Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading.
The policies on teaching reading have insisted that an approach called “systematic synthetic phonics” is the only way to teach reading. Synthetic phonics involves teaching children the 44 sounds, or “phonemes”, of language and how they are represented by letters in words.
England’s approach to teaching reading was alleged to have…
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By Amnesty International
July Global Two landmark Advisory Opinions this year significantly contributed to clarifying the states’ human rights obligations in the face of the climate emergency, bolstering the fight for climate justice and accountability. In July, the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) made clear that the full enjoyment of human rights cannot be ensured without protection of […] The post Stories of hope and humanity to end the year appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
Tunisian authorities must drop charges against six staff members of the Tunisian branch of the French NGO, France Terre d’Asile, who are facing a bogus criminal trial for their humanitarian work with refugees and migrants, and cease the relentless criminalization of civil society, Amnesty International said ahead of the opening of their trial on 15 […] The post Tunisia: Authorities must immediately drop charges against humanitarian workers facing bogus criminal trial appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor, The Conversation
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Venezuelan Nobel peace laureate, María Corina Machado, plans to return home with her accolade “at the correct moment”. You have to presume the correct moment will be at such a time as her bitter political foe Nicolás Maduro is on holiday or otherwise unavoidably detained,…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese appears to be starting to move towards some tightening of parliamentarians’ travel entitlements. After more than a week of controversy, Albanese on Friday said he had asked…
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By Alice Godden, Senior Research Associate, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia
Polar bears are expected to become extinct but there are some signs their DNA is changing and they are adapting to new temperatures.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Riot police barricade, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, December 8, 2018. © 2018 Human Rights Watch On December 9, CIVICUS Monitor, a nongovernmental group assessing civic freedoms globally, downgraded France’s civic space from “narrowed” to “obstructed.”The downgrade is the result of years of attacks on civic space, marked by “escalating police violence, surveillance practices, and arrests of protesters, targeting of journalists, and persistent restrictions on fundamental rights,” according to CIVICUS. The French government is also increasingly using heavy-handed…
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