By Julia K. Baum, Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, University of Victoria
Marc Johnson, Professor of Biology, Canada Research Chair of Urban Environmental Science, University of Toronto
Sarah Otto, Killam University Professor in Evolutionary Biology, University of British Columbia
Impact assessments prevent harm before it occurs. Circumventing the process before we understand the risks is misguided and a gamble with our collective future.
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By Jordan Laidlaw, Ph.D. student, Educational Administration, University of Manitoba
We need to reduce workplace isolation to support teachers’ collegial capacity to mitigate loneliness, bolster engagement and contribute toward more equitable school environments.
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By John Coxhead, Visiting Professor in Solution Oriented Policing, De Montfort University; Loughborough University
Police leaders have said they will review anti-racism guidance following the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak. Vickrum Digwa, his killer, was sentenced this week to life in prison.
Nowak was stabbed five times and tried to escape his attacker by climbing over a fence. Body-worn camera footage shows him handcuffed by police at the scene, repeatedly telling officers: “I’ve been stabbed” and “I can’t breathe”. In the footage, an officer can be heard saying “You’ve been stabbed, whereabouts? … Don’t think you…
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By Amnesty International
Responding to the news that Egyptian activist and writer Ahmed Douma has been convicted and sentenced to one year in prison following an unfair trial, Amnesty International’s Regional Researcher, Mahmoud Shalaby said: “The renewed unjust imprisonment after an unfair trial of Ahmed Douma is a devastating assault on the right to freedom of expression. The weaponization of the criminal justice system against Ahmed Douma and other activists lays bare president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s government’s relentless campaign to crush peaceful dissent and restrict civic space. “Having already […] The…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image The silhouettes of detainees being held at Delaney Hall during a protest on May 30, 2026, in Newark, New Jersey. © 2026 Matthew Hatcher / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images) Citing medical neglect, lack of sanitation, spoiled food, denial of bond, and coercion to sign legal documents that result in deportation, over 300 women and men detained at Delaney Hall, a New Jersey immigration detention facility run by the private, for-profit company GEO Group have reportedly been on a labor and hunger strike since May 22.On June 2, the attorney general filed a lawsuit…
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By Jean Sovon
As civic space shrinks across Africa, one film festival is betting that cinema can do what reports and protests sometimes cannot, hold power to account.
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By Zayd Waghid, Associate professor, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Teacher education must help future teachers connect what they learn at university with the real challenges they will face in classrooms.
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By Abiodun Olusola Omotayo, Ass. Professor, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; North-West University
Abeeb Babatunde Omotoso, Senior Lecturer at Oyo State College of Agriculture and Technology, Igboora, Nigeria and Extraordinary Senior Lecturer at Indigenous Knowledge Systems Centre, North-West University, Mafikeng, South Africa, North-West University
AI tools for farming can play a role. But they need to be properly tailored for African and developing nations’ context.
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By Helga Dickow, Associate Researcher at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institut, Freiburg Germany, University of Freiburg
In most multilingual African countries, language policy is a highly charged and controversial issue. It touches on regional identity, religion and political power – as is evident in Chad, in central Africa.
Around 130 languages are spoken in the multi-ethnic and multi-religious Chad. The two official languages are Standard Arabic and French. Neither has its origins in the country and neither is the mother…
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By Amina Ebrahim, Research Fellow at at UNU-WIDER, United Nations University
Patricia Justino, Professor and Director Designate, World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), United Nations University
Data labs in Zambia, South Africa and Uganda are deepening how governments understand the economies they are responsible for, and the people within them.
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