By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (R) answers questions from the House of Representatives budget committee in Tokyo, November 7, 2025. © 2025 Kyodo via AP Photo During a parliamentary session on November 26, 2025, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said that her Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) government would soon consider new legislation on “spy prevention.” Takaichi’s pledge to “speedily draft” such a law and her party’s past legislative efforts raise serious concerns that the new legislation would endanger free speech rights, media freedom, and the protection…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image The Criminal Court of Appeal building in Yerevan, Armenia, July 12, 2018. © 2018 Asatur Yesayants/Sputnik via AP Photo Armenia’s appeals court on November 19 significantly weakened protections against disability-based discrimination and further restricted access to justice for people undergoing disability assessment.The court overturned a progressive ruling by a lower court and held that discrimination “on the basis of disability” can only occur under the law if a person has already been formally recognized as having a disability. This means people applying for…
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Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Civilians in Ukraine are facing almost daily attacks and growing hardship as Russia’s full-scale invasion approaches the four-year mark, UN human rights investigators said in a new report issued on Tuesday.
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Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Mothers who've been left starving in Gaza are now giving birth to underweight or premature babies who die in intensive care units or struggle to survive as they endure acute malnutrition, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Tuesday.
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By Meg Warren, Associate Professor of Management, Western Washington University
John M. LaVelle, Adjunct Professor, Public Policy, University of Minnesota
Michael T. Warren, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Western Washington University
The impostor phenomenon shows up with allyship too, new research shows. When people wrongly feel like they don’t have the skills to support their colleagues, the result can be a vicious cycle.
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By Ari Koeppel, Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Scientist and Adjunct Associate, Dartmouth College
What’s better – many small space missions, or a few large, sweeping ones? Space scientists are asking this question as they face budget uncertainties.
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By Anya Foxen, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, California Polytechnic State University
Sravana Borkataky-Varma, Instructional Assistant Professor of Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Houston
Drawn from tantric traditions, Kundalini points to spiritual practices that go beyond traditionally understood concepts of the masculine and feminine.
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By Ramazan Kılınç, Professor of Political Science, Kennesaw State University
During his visit to Turkey and Lebanon, Pope Leo XIV met several leaders of Christian communities and worked to promote cooperation between Christians and Muslims.
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By Julien Benoit, Associate professor in Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of the Witwatersrand
Charles Helm, Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University
Emese M Bordy, Professor in Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town
Long ago, people identified fossils in their environment and explained them within their own cultural framework. This was early citizen science.
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By Robert Muggah, Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow na Bosch Academy e Co-fundador, Instituto Igarapé; Princeton University
Brazil’s “criminal economy” does not appear on any national balance sheet. Yet the cost of violence, contraband, tax evasion and environmental crime can be measured in the tens of billions of dollars every year and serves as a major drag on Brazil’s economic growth and stability.
Attempts to quantify this burden go back at least a decade. An influential 2017…
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