By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) fighters in Mekele, Tigray region, Ethiopia, June 30, 2021. © 2021 Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images (Nairobi) – Regional authorities in Ethiopia’s Tigray region should withdraw a proclamation that purports to grant them sweeping powers to compel military service and punish dissent, Human Rights Watch said today. Tigray’s main political party, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), issued the proclamation in early June 2026 after driving out regional leaders appointed by the federal government and initiating…
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By Jo Adetunji, Executive Editor – Partnerships, The Conversation
Our competition is looking for the best longform article and nonfiction book idea aimed at a general audience from our community of academics.
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By Marie-Pier Vaillancourt-Morel, Professor, Psychology, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR)
Marie-Ève Daspe, Associate professor, Psychology, Université de Montréal
Noémie Bigras, Assistant professor, Psychology, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO)
Sexual, physical and emotional abuse, and neglect experienced as a child, can change how a partner’s affection feels as an adult, potentially impacting a romantic relationship.
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By Alireza Asgari, Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management and Information Systems, Clermont School of Business
Morteza Alaeddini, Assistant Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems Management, ICN Business School
Philipp Sauer, Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management and Purchasing, Neoma Business School
As the Strait of Hormuz reopens, a new study reveals what the agri-food industry’s priorities should be to overcome such an unprecedented logistical challenge.
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By Davy Vanham, Senior researcher - Integrated modelling and assessment, CGIAR
Africa is rapidly expanding electricity generation, but new research shows energy planning must also account for water scarcity and carbon dioxide emissions.
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By Megan Winand, Lab Manager and Research Technician, Martin Conservation Decisions Lab, University of British Columbia
Translocation intends to minimize the impacts of development. Research shows that we are moving millions of animals and have no idea what happens to them next.
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By Tony McNulty, Lecturer/Teaching Fellow, British Politics and Public Policy, Queen Mary University of London
This is not the UK’s first leadership transition in government, and it is unlikely to be the last. These events have, however, been rare until recently. In the 80 years since the end of the second world war, there have only been 18 prime ministers. The nineteenth, likely to be Andy Burnham, will become the seventh premier since 2010. So that makes 12 prime ministers over 65 years – and then seven in the last 16 years.
This is a problem, one that is compounded by the reasons for the departure. Six of the 12…
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By Simon Usherwood, Professor of Politics & International Studies, The Open University
Knut Roder, Associate Head of Institute of Law and Social Sciences, Sheffield Hallam University
Paula Surridge, Professor of Political Sociology, University of Bristol
Sara Hobolt, Sutherland Chair in European Institutions and Head of Department, London School of Economics and Political Science
In the years since the Brexit referendum, many have felt deceived or misled on what exactly they were voting for. New data reveals that 60% of British gen Z-ers want a new vote on rejoining the EU. We spoke to experts to find out what impact Brexit has actually had on Britain.
A lesson from the missing youth…
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By Amnesty International
Martha Karua, a Kenyan human rights lawyer who is part of the legal team for Uganda’s opposition politician Kizza Besigye, was on 22 June 2026, arbitrarily arrested and held in incommunicado detention at Entebbe International Airport before being forcefully deported. In response to these developments, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa Tigere […] The post Uganda: Authorities must investigate unlawful detention and deportation of Kenyan human rights lawyer appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Dean Clay, Lecturer in History, University of Hull
Young shipping clerk Edmund Dene Morel was working as for the Liverpool firm Elder Dempster when he noticed what appeared to be a discrepancy in the figures. What Morel found in his investigation of that discrepancy would expose one of the most notorious systems of violence of the colonial era: the Congo Free State, ruled personally by King Leopold II of Belgium.
Leopold founded the Congo…
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