By Amnesty International
Reacting to the adoption by the Transitional Legislative Assembly of the new Persons and Family Code, Marceau Sivieude, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for West and Central Africa, said: “We welcome the long-awaited decision to set the minimum age for marriage at 18 for both boys and girls and establishing consent between the two parties as […] The post Burkina Faso: Criminalization of consensual same-sex relations between adults an alarming setback undermining progressive provisions of the new Persons and Family Code appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Fernanda Canofre
For members of the Brazilian Academy of Prison Letters, the case is about free speech: “After all, a prison sentence doesn’t strip the person from other fundamental rights.”
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Tuesday, September 2nd 2025
In remote eastern Afghanistan, aid workers are continuing to race to assist survivors of Sunday’s devastating earthquake as the death toll continues to climb, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday.
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By Louise Thompson, Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Manchester
The self-proclaimed populist has won a leadership contest a year after the party’s best election result ever. These are the challenges that lie ahead.
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By Ian Mell, Professor in Environmental & Landscape Planning, University of Manchester
Tens of thousands of fans streamed into Manchester’s Heaton Park this summer to see Oasis return home. Over 400,000 people attended across five nights of the much-hyped reunion tour.
But the joy came at a price. For more than eight weeks, large parts of Heaton Park were fenced off and heavily secured, restricting everyday use. Families, dog-walkers and runners were displaced, and the effects rippled far beyond the park gates.
The park regularly hosts food festivals and the music festival Park Life, but Oasis was of a different scale. The concerts effectively turned much…
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By Amalendu Misra, Professor of International Politics, Lancaster University
The US is ramping up its fight against Latin America’s drug cartels. Washington has deployed several naval warships into southern Caribbean waters, alongside over 2,000 marines. A guided missile cruiser, the USS Erie, and a nuclear-powered fast attack submarine, the USS Newport News, are also reportedly due to arrive in the region soon.
These moves take place as the Trump administration escalates pressure on the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, who has…
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By Aimee Grant, Senior Lecturer in Public Health and Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow, Swansea University
Harriet Axbey, Research Assistant in Public Health, Swansea University
Rebecca Ellis, Assistant Researcher in Public Health, Swansea University
When we first set out to explore autistic experiences of pregnancy, another topic kept surfacing in the personal accounts we recieved: menopause. Again and again, autistic people described how difficult this life stage had been and how little support they had received.
So we expanded our focus and our new review reveals a stark reality. Autistic people may face more…
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By Poppy Gibson, Lecturer in Primary Education, The Open University
If your child is putting on their school uniform for the first few times, and learning their way from the school gate into their reception class, they’re going through what education researchers like me call a transition.
As we move through life, we undergo several key changes like this, both in education and in our adult lives. Key transitions in childhood include starting nursery, beginning school, and moving from primary to secondary school. As an adult, you may have been through many…
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By Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian, Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, University of Cambridge
We are regularly bombarded with information about a steep drop in attention spans. Based on its own data in 2015, Microsoft reported that the average attention span had dropped from about 12 seconds for millennials to eight seconds for gen Z.
And as the new Premier League season kicked off, UEFA introduced a…
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By Alpaslan Ozerdem, Dean of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University
The PKK has been fighting the Turkish state for more than 40 years. Whether peace can take root will depend on each side’s commitment to a credible peace process.
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