By Catherine Conybeare, Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies, Bryn Mawr College
Pope Leo XIV’s first official trip to Africa has started with a fascinating stop in Algeria. Here the pontiff’s visit to the Grand Mosque of Algiers is an attempt to strengthen Christian-Muslim relations. The stop is also to pay homage to Saint Augustine, founder of the order that he is a member of.
Catherine Conybeare, a professor of history, language and the classics, has written a book…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Uber Eats delivery drivers protested following the mass deletion of hundreds of accounts in Paris, France, on October, 1, 2022. © 2022 Sipa via AP Photo Every day, food-delivery workers cross Paris and Bordeaux in all weather, working long hours for pay well below France’s minimum wage. For most, this work provides their only source of income.A new survey of around 1,000 workers in France who deliver food for companies such as Uber Eats and Deliveroo describes the consequences of platform or “gig” work.The findings mirror what Human Rights Watch has documented in…
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By Amnesty International
Responding to news that Péter Magyar’s opposition party won the Hungarian national election in a landslide victory, Amnesty International Hungary’s director, Dávid Vig said: “This is a historic moment for Hungary. After 16 years of a government intent on ignoring human rights and dismantling the rule of law, the majority of Hungarians voted for change. This represents […] The post Hungary: Historic opportunity to reverse human rights rollback appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image The Hauts Plateaux taken from the village of Namesha in Fizi Territory, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, March 2026. © 2026 Emmet Livingstone (Nairobi) – Congolese armed forces and armed groups in the South Kivu highlands are interfering with aid delivery and preventing civilians from fleeing fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Rights Watch said today.The United Nations Security Council, which will meet on Congo on April 15, 2026, should call on all warring parties to facilitate humanitarian aid delivery and safe passage of civilians,…
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By Laura
Climate change negatively impacts human, animal, and plant species. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), this crisis is leading beehives, which are vital to food security, to run dry.
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By Sam Bennett, Disability Program Director, Grattan Institute
Reilly Polaschek, Associate, Grattan Institute
Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has grown too big, too fast.
The NDIS is a government-funded program providing support to more than 760,000 disabled Australians. It launched in 2013 as a way to make disability support more accessible and equitable.
But public support for the NDIS is faltering.…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Liberal candidate Raissa Butkowski has drawn top position on the ballot paper for the May 9 Farrer byelection, in a field of a dozen candidates.
While she will be at the top of the ballot paper Butkowski, a lawyer with a community legal service and an Albury councillor, has a massive struggle in the contest. The byelection is to replace as member former Liberal leader Sussan Ley, who quit parliament after being ousted from the leadership.
The frontrunners are Independent Michelle Milthorpe, who has an education background and won 20% of the vote at the last election, and…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image People pass through a destroyed section of Omdurman, Sudan on May 25, 2025. © 2025 Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty Images (Berlin) – Leaders meeting in Berlin on April 15, 2026, the three-year mark of ongoing conflict in Sudan, should commit to concrete, time-bound measures to protect civilians and to hold those responsible for serious international crimes to account, Human Rights Watch said today.Germany, the African Union, France, the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States will meet in Berlin to address the conflict between…
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By Amnesty International
Nearly two months after the approval of the amnesty law intended to grant freedom to people prosecuted and detained for political reasons in Venezuela, Amnesty International reminds the Venezuelan authorities that its implementation must not rely on discretionary criteria that perpetuate the political repression the law is, in theory, intended to remedy. In this regard, […] The post Venezuela: Amnesty law must not become a mechanism of repression appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Jamie Torrance, Lecturer and Researcher in Psychology, Swansea University
“Welcome bonus: get 150% up to £150 on your first deposit”. It’s the kind of offer that greets anyone who visits a British online betting site. What it doesn’t say is that if you decide to spend £50 on this offer, you’d need to stake an additional £750 of your own money before any winnings could be withdrawn.
Recent research by colleagues and I asked nearly 600 UK bettors to work out the true cost of exactly that kind of offer. Nearly everyone got…
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