By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image The entrance of the Permanent Council of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), in Vienna, Austria, February 15, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Lisa Leutner, File A new report prepared under the auspices of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) documents a significant deterioration in human rights and democratic standards in Georgia and calls for urgent reforms to protect fundamental freedoms.Published on March 12, the report was prepared by an OSCE fact-finding mission after 23 participating states invoked the…
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By Nozomi Uematsu, Lecturer in Japanese Studies (Japanese and Comparative Literature), University of Sheffield
Loneliness in women is on the rise in Japan, and friendship can help. But in this novel, connection quickly becomes obsession.
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By Narmin Nahidi, Assistant Professor in Finance, University of Exeter
Financial markets react more strongly to sudden, visible events like storms, even when gradual changes like rising sea levels might be equally devastating.
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By Ruth Corps, Early Career Research Fellow in Psychology, School of Psychology, University of Sheffield
“Ultimately, the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or friendship, is conversation,” wrote Oscar Wilde.
We often think of conversation as effortless. But beneath its apparent ease lies an extraordinary feat of coordination – a finely tuned dance of listening and speaking.
Summoning a single word in your mind and then saying it takes at least 600…
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By Sanam Mahoozi, Research Associate, City St George's, University of London
Plants that convert seawater to drinking water are at the heart of major cities in the Gulf. But they are increasingly becoming military targets.
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By Maria Sobolewska, Professor of Politics, University of Manchester
Labour has long been accused of taking Black voters for granted. Now trends among other ethnic minority voters should concern Keir Starmer.
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By Ben Seymour, PhD Candidate in International Relations, Nottingham Trent University
Eszter Simon, Senior Lecturer Politics and International Relations, Nottingham Trent University
Washington may see the Kurds as a useful tool for confronting the Iranian regime, but such a strategy could create new tensions elsewhere in the region.
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By Christian Emery, Associate Professor in International Politics, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL
As the US and Israel’s assault on Iran grinds on, the Trump administration has issued increasingly bellicose claims that American and Israeli forces are delivering ferocious blows to the Iranian regime.
The US secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, warned of the “most intense” day of strikes yet on March 10. And Donald Trump followed with a claim that the war will end soon because…
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By Amnesty International
My ordeal started at about 2am one morning in February 2018, when I was arrested by the Greek police. People were fleeing conflicts at home and coming to Europe seeking safety in unseaworthy boats and I was helping the Emergency Response Center International to conduct search and rescue activities. I was detained without understanding what […] The post Seán: A Greek court refused to criminalise rescue workers, but will the EU do the same? appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Residents inspect damaged belongings inside a tent burned by suspected Israeli settlers in the village of Susya in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, February 25, 2026. © 2026 Mosab Shawer/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images While many Israelis are taking shelter from missile and drone attacks, armed settlers in the West Bank are taking advantage of the fog of war to seize land and advance Israel’s ongoing dispossession and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.On a daily basis, settlers are invading Palestinian communities,…
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