Thursday, December 4, 2025
UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Thursday warned that Sudan risks “another El Fasher” as fierce fighting spreads across the Kordofan region, raising fears of a fresh wave of atrocities.
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Thursday, December 4, 2025
As the world prepares to mark Human Rights Day on 10 December, the UN is warning that war-torn Sudan is in the midst of arguably the gravest human rights crisis of our time.
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By Adriaan van Klinken, Professor of Religion and African Studies, University of Leeds
In African literature, Christianity has usually been shown as a foreign religion brought to the continent by European missionaries and colonisers. But in the past few decades, Nigeria’s writers have dealt with it in a far more complex way as Christianity is rooted in, and transformed by, local realities, ranging from conflict to prosperity.…
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By Narnia Bohler-Muller, Divisional Executive, Developmental, Capable and Ethical State research division, Human Sciences Research Council
The G20’s Women 20 group agreed that action is needed to stop unpaid care work and forced labour, and improve women’s health and climate leadership.
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By Judith Coullie, Senior Research Associate, English Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal
His image is the watermark in South African passports, but he is not as widely known as leaders like Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu.
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By Gemma Ware, Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
Political scientist Carolyn Holmes speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the history of American interest in South Africa’s white Afrikaaner minority.
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By Guergana Guintcheva, Professeur de Marketing, EDHEC Business School
Bertrand Monnet, Professeur, EDHEC Business School
In 2024, the global art market hit an estimated $57.5 billion (€49.5 billion) in sales, according to the Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report 2025, underscoring art’s significance as an asset class. Art is traditionally associated with noble motivations and heritage. However, the art market, with its high value per unit transactions, subjective and/or manipulated valuations, and relative opacity, can be exploited as a tool for criminal investment and money laundering, particularly…
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By Sterre ter Haar, PhD researcher and lecturer, Industrial Ecology Department of the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Leiden University
Scientists thought they had finally stumbled upon a possibly positive side effect of climate change. While rising CO₂ levels have been linked to various effects, from rising sea levels to changing temperatures, could an increase in CO₂ also be good for something? Plants use carbon dioxide and sunlight for photosynthesis, so more CO₂ could theoretically mean more food.
It sounds almost too good to be true, but science backs part of this up. Plants do grow faster when CO₂…
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By Antony Black, Lecturer, Life Sciences, University of Westminster
Robert F. Kennedy Jr is undermining trust in vaccines with claims about aluminium that contradict scientific studies involving millions of people.
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By Roman Birke, Assistant Professor in Modern European History, Dublin City University
Whichever outcome emerges from the Ukraine peace negotiations, it appears no position rooted in the defence of international law will prevail.
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