By Emma Kondrup, PhD student in Machine Learning, McGill University
Anne Imouza, PhD candidate in Political Science at McGill University
Catherine Régis, Professeure titulaire, Faculté de droit, Chaire en IA Canada-CIFAR, Mila et Chaire en diplomatie scientifique et gouvernance mondiale de l'IA (Fonds de recherche du Québec), Université de Montréal
Reihaneh Rabbany, Associate Professor, Computer Science, McGill University
In June 2026, the Canadian government passed a groundbreaking reform of the Criminal Code — the Protecting Victims Act (Bill C-16). This strengthened protections against gender-based violence and, for the first time, made it a crime to share sexual “deepfakes” of a person without their consent.
That same month, Parliament amended…
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By Marin Cvitanovic, Principal Academic In Human Geography, Bournemouth University
Jack Olley, Part-time lecturer
Laura Bunt-MacRury, Lecturer, University of Glasgow
Tilak Ginige, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law, Bournemouth University
Water affects almost every part of daily life: drinking, sanitation, food production, health, jobs and the natural environment. Yet in South Africa, three million people don’t have clean running water, and 14 million have no flushing toilets.
Climate change and recurring droughts make the problem
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By Petra Holden, Senior Researcher, University of Cape Town
Cherié Janine Forbes, Research Officer (Climate Responsive Nature-based Solutions), University of Cape Town
Gerald Ngoma, Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Cape Town
Martine Visser, Professor in the School of Economics, University of Cape Town
People restoring Africa’s ecosystems need climate services that combine forecasts with Indigenous knowledge and information about land, water and livelihoods.
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By Jack Swab, Assistant Professor Department of Geography & Sustainability, University of Tennessee
Derek H. Alderman, Chancellor's Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee
The UN has passed a non-binding resolution to endorse the Equal Earth Projection, a map which more fairly represents the true size of the Earth’s landmasses. The current commonly used projection, called the Mercator Projection, greatly exaggerates land towards the north and south poles, which makes Africa look much smaller. In the Mercator projection,…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
It is the second time in just days that the One Nation leader is on the back foot after making a personal attack.
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By Claude Diebolt, Directeur de Recherche au CNRS, UMR BETA, Université de Strasbourg
Romain Diebolt, Doctorant, University of Southampton
Are education systems succeeding in transforming individual abilities into collective opportunities? This is what rankings ought to be measuring rather than reducing education to a few figures.
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By Elizabeth A. Phelps, Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
William Hirst, Professor of Psychology, The New School
Memories are dynamic, not fixed. Even if what you’re remembering about your own experience isn’t quite how it all happened, those memories serve important roles.
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By Amnesty International
Amnesty International welcomes the Guatemalan judiciary’s decision to close the criminal proceedings against four Indigenous authorities charged with unlawful association, terrorism, obstruction of justice, sedition and obstruction of criminal prosecution following their participation in peaceful protests during the national strike in October 2023. The ruling concerns Luis Pacheco, Héctor Chaclán and Basilio Puac, from the […] The post Guatemala: A step towards justice for Indigenous authorities after months of criminalization appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By James Horncastle, Associate Professor and Edward and Emily McWhinney Professor in International Relations, Simon Fraser University
Canada’s deepening ties with Ukraine can strengthen both countries as they navigate an increasingly unstable world and a less reliable U.S. ally.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Olga Sibireva. © Private Those reporting on Russia are rarely surprised these days to learn that another critic of the Russian government is being prosecuted over alleged involvement with a “foreign undesirable organization.” But even in Russia, the case against Olga Sibireva rises to new heights of absurdity.Sibireva is an expert on religious freedom at SOVA Center, a leading independent Russian think tank researching racism, xenophobia, ultra-nationalism, and the authorities’ abuse of counter-extremism and counterterrorism legislation. This week, a Russian court…
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