By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Officers of the Dominican Republic's armed forces take part in a parade to celebrate the country's independence in Santo Domingo on February 27, 2012. © 2012 Ricardo Rojas/Reuters (New York) – The Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Court has struck down provisions in the Codes of Justice of the National Police and the Armed Forces that criminalized consensual same-sex conduct by officers, Human Rights Watch said today. The ruling, made public on November 18, 2025, is a landmark victory for equality, ending a regime of state-sanctioned discrimination that…
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By Regan Lipes, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and English, MacEwan University
Canadian literature cannot be defined solely by the language in which it is written. Instead, it must be understood as a multilingual body of work shaped the diverse people who live here.
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By Kwasi Konadu, Professor in Africana & Latin American Studies, Colgate University
African American singer Ciara received citizenship from the Republic of Benin in 2025 as a descendant of enslaved Africans. The images of her ceremony at Ouidah’s slave route memorial site, “Door of No Return”, were broadcast worldwide. Surrounded by drummers…
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By Richard G. Cowden, Research Scientist, Harvard University
South Africa is often portrayed in the media as a country struggling with inequality, corruption, crime, infrastructure collapse and public health challenges. But this isn’t the whole story.
When South Africans are asked to describe their own lives, they often reveal signs that they are flourishing in vital ways. According to the Global Flourishing Study, many South Africans are in fact showing resolve by striving to move forward…
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By Luo Mai, Reader at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Edoardo Ponti, Lecturer in Natural Language Processing, University of Edinburgh
Clusters of wafer-scale chips can process information ten times faster than today’s GPUs – with the right software in place.
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By Paul Whiteley, Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
Available data suggests the Democratic Party will win ten seats and gain control of the House of Representatives in the midterms.
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By Dipa Kamdar, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, Kingston University
Pancreatic disease can be life threatening. Knowing the early warning signs and the lifestyle risks can help people seek help sooner.
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By Ruth Barton, Fellow Emeritus in Film Studies, Trinity College Dublin
The scandal of the religious-run Magdalene laundries, where young women deemed to have offended the moral code of the Catholic Church were incarcerated and put to work, is a stain on the public history of the Irish state. It has taken years of campaigning to bring this injustice to light.
Even now, it is more than feasible that further revelations will emerge. They did in 2012, when amateur historian Catherine Corliss uncovered evidence…
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By Michael Smith, Associate Professor of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Faye Doughty, PhD Researcher, Citizen-Centred Artificial Intelligence, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Around a quarter of UK homes lie on disused coalfields. These abandoned coal mines are flooded with water that is naturally heated by the Earth.
This has enormous potential as a sustainable energy source. Schemes such as the mine water district heat network in Gateshead,…
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By Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
Tetyana Malyarenko, Professor of International Security, Jean Monnet Professor of European Security, National University Odesa Law Academy
Renewed talk of no-longer-secret negotiations between the Kremlin and the White House over a plan to end the war in Ukraine that heavily favours Russia adds to a broader sense of doom in Kyiv and among its western partners.
Coupled with the fallout from a sweeping corruption scandal among Ukraine’s elites and stalling efforts…
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