By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Wharf in the new Walande site on mainland Malaita Province, Solomon Islands. © 2025 Cyril Eberle for Human Rights Watch As coastal communities around the world are already facing the sobering consequences of sea level rise, government negotiators at the just-completed United Nations climate summit, known as COP30, debated a critical question: how do we measure “successful” climate adaptation?There is no easy answer, as negotiations on how to measure progress toward a global goal on how to help communities adapt showed. But having indicators to measure adaptation matters…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image The construction site of the world's largest cricket stadium at Motera, Ahmedabad, India, December 12, 2019. © 2019 Sam Panthak/AFP via Getty Images India will play host to the centenary Commonwealth Games in 2030 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat state, which is also the proposed host city for the country’s 2036 Olympic and Paralympic Games bid.India last hosted the Commonwealth Games in 2010 in New Delhi amid allegations of corruption, forced evictions, labor rights abuses, and trafficking of women and girls. As Indian authorities undertake new construction for sports infrastructure…
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By Stephen Siff, Associate Professor of Journalism, Miami University
George Plimpton, then a 36-year-old literary editor, endured the brutal realities of a professional football quarterback despite barely ever playing the sport.
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By Saif Khan, Ph.D. Candidate in Biology, University of Southern California
Naloxone can reverse an overdose in minutes, but exactly how it does this at the molecular level has previously been unclear.
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By Mark Louie Ramos, Assistant Research Professor of Health Policy and Administration, Penn State
Researchers design studies that might disprove what’s called their null hypothesis – the opposite of the claim they’re interested in exploring.
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By Asher Kaufman, Professor of History and Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
Since the start of the truce on Nov. 27, 2024, there have been thousands of Israeli violations inside Lebanese territory, while Hezbollah has yet to disarm.
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By Tevis Garrett Graddy-Lovelace, Provost Associate Professor of Environment, Development and Health, American University School of International Service
Despite the administration’s claim of streamlining the government to make its operations more efficient, a range of recent federal policies have, in fact, exacerbated food wastage.
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By Marelize Isabel Schoeman, Professor, University of South Africa
In a recent statement, South Africa’s minister of correctional services said more than 18,000 parolees had reoffended in the past three years. They included 209 committing murder and 330 rape during 2024-25. This is one of the country’s most pressing justice problems, yet it remains poorly understood. It’s called recidivism:…
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By Stephen Leonard Mensah, PhD Candidate, University of Memphis
Louis Kusi Frimpong, Senior Lecturer, University of Environment and Sustainable Development
Seth Asare Okyere, Teaching Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburg and Visiting Associate Professor, The University of Osaka, University of Pittsburgh
Wetlands are vital ecological resources that provide several benefits in urban and peri-urban areas. They slow down flood waters, and act as a source of fishing and farming livelihoods. They also provide socio-cultural benefits for local communities. But some of these valuable ecosystems, due to their presence in prime locations, are at the centre of competing cultural, ecological and economic interests. Property development, especially, is a threat to wetlands.
The 2025…
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By Zunaida Moosa Wadiwala, Legal Researcher, PhD Candidate and Lead of the African Climate Law Programme, Mandela Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
Tracy-Lynn Field, Director of the Mandela Institute, Professor of Law, University of the Witwatersrand
Some African countries have consumer protection laws that they could use to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for pretending to be green.
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