By Ayoush Lazikani, Lecturer in Medieval English, University of Oxford
As a symbol, the Moon did not have an easily decipherable meaning – which encouraged medieval people to read it in playful ways.
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By Paul Cheshire, Professor Emeritus of Economic Geography, London School of Economics and Political Science
Economists have argued for years that council tax in the UK was rushed in and badly thought out. After the poll tax fiasco of the early 1990s, a substitute was urgent. The answer was council tax, but this was almost as unfit for purpose as the poll tax it replaced.
So if the experts know council tax is an unfair mess, why has there been no reform? There seem to be…
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By Jenna Sapiano, Research Fellow, Peace Studies, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
DIsproportionately relying on military spending for security purposes fails to prevent conflict and has a detrimental impact on gender equality, human rights and peacemaking.
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By Adam Skoyles, PhD Candidate, School of Planning, University of Waterloo
Michael Drescher, Associate Professor, School of Planning, University of Waterloo
The housing affordability crisis is top of mind for many around the world, including Canadians. Between 2019 and 2024, house prices in Toronto and Montréal had an average annual…
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Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Senior independent rights investigators appointed by the Human Rights Council alleged on Tuesday that Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide, a charge flatly rejected by Tel Aviv.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Amid reports of intensifying bombardment in Gaza City overnight, the Middle East crisis took centre stage at the UN on Tuesday, starting at the global body's Geneva headquarters, where Israel rejected allegations of genocide by an international panel of independent human rights investigators. The development came ahead of an urgent debate at the Human Rights Council prompted by Israeli strikes on Hamas political leadership last week in Doha. UN News app users can follow live here.
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By Amnesty International
In response to a report submitted by the UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry (COI) on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, to the 60th session of the UN Human Rights Council today concluding that Israeli authorities and forces have committed and are continuing to commit genocide in the occupied Gaza Strip, […] The post Israel/OPT: UN report concluding Israel is committing genocide in Gaza must spur international action appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
My dad was a humanitarian doctor, so I was born where he was working at the time, which happened to be a Thai refugee camp amongst people fleeing the Khmer Rouge. Our family moved from crisis to crisis following my father’s work: the famine in Ethiopia, the civil war in Mozambique, the collapse of Somalia. […] The post Riva Jalipa: we must fight to finance our rights appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Remy Rowhani © Private. (Beirut) – Qatari authorities should set aside the baseless conviction of Remy Rowhani, the chair of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is in Qatar, and reject the prosecution’s attempt to increase his sentence, Human Rights Watch said today. Qatari authorities should immediately and unconditionally release him.A Doha court sentenced Rowhani, 71, to five years in prison in August 2025, following his flawed conviction on offenses linked the peaceful exercise of his rights to freedom of speech and religion. Qatar’s deputy attorney general…
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By Nicolas Mathevon, Professeur (Neurosciences & bioacoustique - Université de Saint-Etienne, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes - PSL & Institut universitaire de France), Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Étienne
The sound slices through the quiet of the night: a muffled sob, then a hiccup, quickly escalating into a high-pitched, frantic wail. For any parent or caregiver, this is a familiar, urgent call to action. But what is it a call for? Is the baby hungry? In pain? Lonely? Or simply uncomfortable? For generations, we’ve been told that understanding this primal language is a matter of intuition, a “maternal instinct” that allows a mother to divine her child’s needs. Society often reinforces this idea, creating an elite class of quasi-psychic super-parents who seem to know everything, and leaving…
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