Friday, November 28, 2025
The UN human rights office, OHCHR said on Friday that it was “appalled” by the “brazen killing” of two Palestinian men by Israeli border police in the West Bank, describing it as “an apparent summary execution.”
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, Moscow, 2010. © REUTERS/Alexander Natruskin (Berlin, November 28, 2025) – Russia’s designation of Human Rights Watch as an “undesirable” foreign organization, made public by the Ministry of Justice on November 28, is yet another mark of the Kremlin’s repression, Human Rights Watch said today. The designation bans the organization’s work in Russia.“For over three decades, Human Rights Watch’s work on post-Soviet Russia has pressed the government to uphold human rights and freedoms,” said Philippe Bolopion, executive…
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By Rahul Sidhu, PhD Candidate, Neuroscience, University of Sheffield
Two major trials show the weight-loss drug offers no cognitive benefit to people with early Alzheimer’s, dashing hopes it might protect the brain.
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By Milena Tsvetkova, Associate Professor of Computational Social Science, London School of Economics and Political Science
People tend to associate with others who are in a similar financial position, making them underestimate the true levels on inequality.
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By Patrick Diamond, Professor of Public Policy, Queen Mary University of London
In walking the political tightrope of her own budget this week, Rachel Reeves had to broadly satisfy three critical audiences. There were her own MPs in the parliamentary Labour party, business and financial markets and, of course, voters who ultimately determine whether the Labour government is re-elected three or four years from now.
Pleasing all three simultaneously is hardly straightforward given the UK’s precarious fiscal predicament. Reeves could have attempted to appease the markets and voters with fiscal discipline that avoided significant tax rises. But if she antagonised…
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By Benedict Carpenter van Barthold, Lecturer, School of Art & Design, Nottingham Trent University
Frida Kahlo’s 1940 self-portrait, El Sueño (La Cama), or The Dream (The Bed), has sold for US$54.7 million (£41.4m) at Sotheby’s New York. It is now the most expensive Latin American artwork in history, and has set the auction record for a female artist.
Kahlo’s canvas was the standout lot in a collection titled Surrealist Treasures. The painting appears to be a quintessential surrealist…
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By Naomi Joseph, Arts + Culture Editor, The Conversation
A sexually charged film, animated animal hijinks, an ode to the 80s come to an end, stories of collapse and paintings of Paris old and new.
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By Jane Parry, Associate Professor of Work and Employment, University of Southampton
The COVID pandemic accelerated remote and hybrid working practices across the world. It also provided evidence that these approaches could work for a wide variety of jobs.
The UK has been at the forefront of the shift to hybrid working and its sustainability as a work practice in future. This year, the Global Survey of Working Arrangements calculated that the typical UK worker averaged 1.8 days of remote working per week,…
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By Amnesty International
In response to the Tunis Court of Appeal upholding the convictions and prison sentences against 34 defendants to sentences from five to forty-five years in the politically motivated ‘conspiracy case’ on 27 November, Sara Hashash, Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International, said: “The decision by the Tunis Court of […] The post Tunisia: Quash unjust heavy convictions in ‘conspiracy case’ appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Central African Republic President Faustin Archange Touadéra gestures to supporters as he attends The United Hearts Movement (MCU) conference in Bangui on July 26, 2025, where he announced his candidacy for the presidential election scheduled for December 2025, seeking a third consecutive term. © 2025 ANNELA NIAMOLO/AFP via Getty Images (Nairobi) – Concerns about irregularities, political interference, and security pressures risk putting the credibility and inclusiveness of key elections in the Central African Republic into question, Human Rights Watch said today.…
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