By David Smilde, Professor of Sociology, Tulane University
Few can doubt the courage María Corina Machado has shown in fighting for a return to democracy in Venezuela.
The 58-year-old politician and activist is the undisputed leader of the opposition to Nicolás Maduro – a man widely seen as a dictator who has taken Venezuela…
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Friday, October 10, 2025
The UN human rights office, OHCHR, on Friday welcomed the Nobel Peace Prize committee’s decision to name opposition leader Maria Machado as this year’s laureate, in recognition of her work promoting the Venezuelan people’s democratic hopes.
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Friday, October 10, 2025
UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Friday condemned in the strongest terms the continued killing and injuring of civilians in the besieged Sudanese city of El Fasher.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Herbicide is sprayed on a soybean field in the Cerrado plains near Campo Verde, Mato Grosso state, western Brazil. © 2011 Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images Fifteen organizations including Human Rights Watch sent letters to European Union officials and lawmakers this week pressing the European Commission to follow through on its commitments to stop the export of pesticides that are banned in the EU.EU regulators have banned these pesticides within the EU after reviewing evidence that they pose unacceptable risks either to the environment or human health,…
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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 authorities on October 6 released Rasmané Zinaba and Bassirou Badjo, two members of the civil society group Balai Citoyen, who had been unlawfully conscripted into military service after criticizing the country’s military junta. Their release is an encouraging if not unprecedented development in a country where the government has increasingly violated human rights…
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By Zsuzsanna Varga, Senior Lecturer, Political & International Studies, University of Glasgow
When László Krasznahorkai, winner of the 2025 Nobel prize in literature, first burst onto Hungary’s literary scene in 1985, it was clear he was a unique talent. His first novel, Satantango, soon became a cult classic.
The novel’s Hungarian readers were living in the stifling atmosphere of the dying years of state socialism. They were quick to understand the parallels between the the novel – about an isolated rural community – and their own isolation from the rest of the world.
They were drawn,…
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By Pia Riggirozzi, Professor of Global Politics, University of Southampton
The Venezuelan opposition leader was forced to go into hiding in 2024 after being banned form standing in that year’s election.
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By Frances Fowle, Personal Chair of Nineteenth-Century Art, History of Art, University of Edinburgh
Cave paintings are often called the first art ever made. But can we really call these early cave people artists?
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By Thankom Arun, Professor of Global Development and Accountability, University of Essex
Sheri Markose, Professor of Economics, University of Essex
Keir Starmer’s first visit to India was a chance to talk about trade, technology and a closer relationship. The UK prime minister said he was impressed by the country’s “sheer scale” and impressive economic growth.
He may be fairly envious of that growth which, at 7.8% for the first quarter of the year, is several times higher than the UK’s. The country is projected to become the world’s third-largest economy by 2030, with an estimated GDP of US$7.3 trillion (£5.5 trillion). Starmer may also have noticed that one of India’s biggest economic successes is in the burgeoning sector of financial…
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By Deborah Fry, Professor of International Child Protection Research and Director of Data at the Childlight Global Child Safety Institute, University of Edinburgh
AI-generated child sexual abuse material is rising, and familial abuse is leading to the creation of new child sexual abuse material.
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