By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Burkina Faso soldiers patrol aboard a pickup truck on the road from Dori to the Goudebo refugee camp, on February 3, 2020. © 2020 OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP via Getty Images Burkina Faso’s unelected parliament has unanimously adopted a new penal code that restores the death penalty for high treason, terrorism, acts of espionage, parricide and importation of expired or prohibited products. The country had abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes in 2018 while its last known judicial execution took place in 1988.Reinstating capital punishment…
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By Guest Contributor
Access Now's 2025 report found that at least 313 shutdowns were implemented globally, and that in Africa the Internet was shut down 30 times in 15 countries, with protests the leading trigger, followed by elections.
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By Richard Hastings, 125th Anniversary Chair, and Professor of Psychology Health and Social Care, University of Birmingham
Chris Hatton, Professor of Social Care, Department of Social Care and Social Work, Faculty of Health and Education, Manchester Metropolitan University
Anxiety. I always feel like I’m on edge. COVID, cost of living crisis, finances, current living arrangement. The majority don’t seem to care about COVID anymore and you can’t just ignore it, people are still dying from it.
Cara, whose name has been changed, described these concerns in our research into the continuing effects of the pandemic on people with intellectual disabilities. Her account shows how concerns about infection became entangled with uncertainty about everyday…
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By James Mollard, Researcher, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh
Matthew Wright, DPhil Candidate, Department of Atmospheric Physics, University of Oxford
The Royal Meteorological Society’s annual report highlights how weather and climate affect the UK’s energy sector. Both winter and summer extremes pose challenges.
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By Lydia Namatende-Sakwa, Associate Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
Schools are often among the first places where emotional and behavioural difficulties become visible. Learners may start missing classes, withdrawing from friends or struggling academically.
Schools are strategically positioned for mental health intervention because of their centrality in the lives of children and adolescents. They are an important entry point for mental health responsive action that can reach large numbers of children and adolescents through existing systems.
The burden of child and…
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By Michael Odei Erdiaw-Kwasie, Senior Lecturer in Sustainability| Business and Accounting Discipline, Charles Darwin University
Amila Udage, Research associate, Charles Darwin University
Matthew Abunyewah, Research Active Lecturer, Discipline of Psychology, Charles Darwin University, Charles Darwin University
Africa’s circular economy is already at work in repair shops and scrap yards. Backing the people who keep goods in use could cut waste and create better jobs.
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By Mariëtte van der Walt, Biodiversity Coordinator, Wilderness, University of the Witwatersrand
Climate change and changes in the way land is used are the two biggest threats to wildlife because they change the environment in which animals survive and thrive. Knowing how species respond to these pressures is central to planning conservation actions.
A number of studies have modelled how climate change will affect vertebrate distributions. But little is known about bats from…
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By Paolo Stuppia, Sociologue, membre du CESSP (Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Science Politique), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
The term the French media are using to describe the people behind the chaos on the fringes of legitimate protests seems to be raising more questions than answers.
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By Stephen Jackson, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Nottingham
In the BBC reality show The Celebrity Traitors, the Traitors – James Acaster, Maya Jama and King Kenny – were set an unusual challenge: murder a Faithful by making them yawn. Their plan was to bore their target into yawning, then deliver the line “Am I boring you?” to seal the murder.
The task plays on one of yawning’s strangest features: its ability to spread from one person to another. Seeing someone yawn can be enough to trigger a yawn of your own, sometimes even when you are not tired. But would the same…
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By Paul Baines, Professor of Political Marketing, Head of Executive Education, University of Leicester
Prime Minister Andy Burnham recently announced the creation of a National Centre for Information Defence that will disrupt disinformation campaigns by states hostile to the UK. The centre will bring together security services, police, tech firms and government departments.
But this new centre will have its work cut out. State-backed adversaries are supported by huge amounts of money – Russia alone has an estimated US$2.15…
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