By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Displaced people who fled the Zamzam camp, gather near the town of Tawila in North Darfur, Sudan, February 14, 2025. © 2025 AFP via Getty Images Global leaders need to respond to reports of fresh attacks by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on the Zamzam displacement camp near North Darfur’s capital of El Fasher. The camp hosts at least half a million people who have fled past and present violence and abuse in Darfur. In recent days, hundreds of desperate civilians have arrived in Tawila, a town 60 kilometers west of Zamzam, destitute, hungry, and thirsty, reporting…
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By Sonia Awale
While traditional electric vehicles have been incentivized in Nepal, electrifying public transport and two-wheelers would mean higher consumption of hydroelectricity, less road congestion, and better access to transport for all.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Displaced people who fled the Zamzam camp, gather near the town of Tawila in North Darfur, Sudan, February 14, 2025. © 2025 AFP via Getty Images Global leaders need to respond to reports of fresh attacks by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on the Zamzam displacement camp near North Darfur’s capital of El Fasher. The camp hosts at least half a million people who have fled past and present violence and abuse in Darfur. In recent days, hundreds of desperate civilians have arrived in Tawila, a town 60 kilometers west of Zamzam, destitute, hungry, and thirsty, reporting…
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By Peace News
A 2019 survey by Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics showed that 30 percent of the country’s women aged 15–49 had experienced physical violence, while 68 percent had experienced emotional, economic, or sexual abuse.
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Friday, April 11, 2025
Military operations continue in Myanmar despite ceasefires declared after the recent earthquake that killed more than 3,600 people, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Friday.
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By Amnesty International
Responding to news that treason charges were brought against Tundu Lissu, leader of Tanzania’s main opposition Party for Democracy and Progress (Chadema) on 10 April, following his arrest on 9 April, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, Tigere Chagutah said: “The Tanzanian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release Tundu Lissu whose arbitrary […] The post Tanzania: Stop repression of opposition leaders and immediately release Tundu Lissu appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Andrew Corbett, Senior Lecturer in Defence Studies, King's College London
Putting a European in place as the leader of Nato forces might seem like an easy option, but there are several major issues.
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By Daniel García-Castellanos, Earth scientist, Instituto de Geociencias de Barcelona (Geo3Bcn – CSIC)
Paul Carling, Emeritus Professor of Geomorphology, University of Southampton
A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar. According to this theory, oceanic water rushed faster than a speeding car down a kilometre-high slope towards the empty Mediterranean Sea, excavating a skyscraper-deep trough on its way.
The Med was, at the time, a largely dry and salty basin, but so much water poured in that it filled up in just a couple of years – maybe even just a few months. At its peak, the flood discharged about 1,000 times the water of the modern-day Amazon river.
At least, that’s…
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By Sophie King-Hill, Associate Professor at the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham
Kieran McCartan, Professor in Criminology, University of the West of England
This article contains spoilers for season three of The White Lotus
The White Lotus is a show where a lot of sex happens and many taboos are explored. For instance, in episode seven the impact on one character of watching his parents having sex as a child and how that affected his sexuality is talked about. Given all of this, it might seem like no big deal to feature an incest storyline, which this series did. But, as researchers of sibling sexual behaviour-abuse, we were particularly perturbed by the show’s take on this issue.
In episode five, we see holidaying…
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By Linggong Kong, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, Auburn University
Trump’s tariffs may hurt, but this time China holds more cards − and could turn the pressure into a strategic advantage.
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