By Duncan Stibbard Hawkes, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Baylor University
Christopher von Rueden, Associate Professor of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond
On the shores of Lake Eyasi in Northern Tanzania, a small number of people still hunt and gather their food. Today a Hadza hunter has taken down an animal – a kudu. He can’t carry it by himself, so he cuts his poisoned arrow from its flank, covers the carcass in dry grass to hide it from hyenas and heads home to enlist help.
News spreads like wildfire across the camp. Everybody rushes to the kill. They divide up the carcass, carry it back, then divvy it up some more. Every family gets some, and after the meat is cooked,…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Left: Panayote Dimitras. Right: Tommy Olsen. © 2019 EIN Secretariat – Agnes Ciccarone © 2015 Adam Rosser (Athens, October 3, 2026) – The ongoing prosecution of two prominent human rights defenders in Greece is a politically-motivated attempt to silence their efforts to expose abuses against migrants, Human Rights Watch said today. The trial of the two activists, Panayote Dimitras and Tommy Olsen, is set to begin on the Greek island of Rhodes on October 6, 2026.“The upcoming trial of Panayote Dimitras and Tommy Olsen is a blatant attempt to criminalize…
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Friday, October 2nd 2026
The war in Ukraine is a human rights catastrophe that is “growing and intensifying by the week” and threatening an even greater disaster across the region, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said on Friday.
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By Farhan Mutaqin, PhD Researcher, University of Edinburgh
Almukantar Fikriansyah, MSc Marketing (cand.) at The University of Edinburgh
It is important to knowing what a community finds funny, what it finds tired, and when a brand has no business speaking at all.
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By Gustavo Magalhaes da Silva Junior, Mestre em Comunicação Social, PUC-Rio
Arthur Ituassu, Professor Associado de Comunicação Política, PUC-Rio; University of Arizona
Research shows that electoral threats do not only affect the ballot box, but also hijack public debate, using polarization to erode trust in democratic institutions.
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By Manuela Lowenthal, Pesquisadora de Doutorado, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
In Brazil, religion is the dominant cultural grammar. More than a simple expression of individual faith, religion functions in politics as a sociolinguistic marker of order and authority.
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By Helena B. Nader, Presidente, Academia Brasileira de Ciências (ABC); Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
With the upcoming Oct. 5 elections, the country has a new opportunity to strengthen scientific research as a foundation for addressing today’s challenges and bolstering its sovereignty.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Police officers stand guard outside the Prince Edward subway station in Hong Kong on August 31, 2020, the first anniversary of the day riot police stormed the station using excessive force, including batons and pepper spray, against people in subway carriages. © 2020 AP Photo/Vincent Yu Laying flowers, speaking out, reporting the news – once ordinary acts in Hong Kong— can now lead to prison under the city’s sweeping national security laws.National Security Police said on October 1 that they had arrested eight people in September for alleged “sedition.” Police…
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By Pietro A. Sasso, Associate Professor of Education, Old Dominion University
While universities can suspend and expel students for committing sexual violence and other kinds of illegal misconduct, they face logistical and financial limits to preventing such behavior.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Six journalists from the independent investigative journalism platform Matsda2sh arrested by Egyptian security forces between September 28 and 29, 2026. © Photo courtesy of The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP). (Beirut) – Egyptian security forces arrested six journalists working for the independent investigative journalism platform Matsda2sh on September 28 and 29, 2026, and appear to have forcibly disappeared them, Human Rights Watch said today. The journalists’ whereabouts are unknown and their families and lawyers have not been permitted…
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