By Guest Contributor
The future of these girls depends on creating a space where women can fulfill their dreams, share their knowledge, and shape the future of Mexico.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025
The UN relief chief on Wednesday urged Israel and Hamas to honour their agreement to return deceased hostages and allow aid at scale into Gaza, warning that it should not be used as “a bargaining chip” amid reports of new civilian killings and extrajudicial executions.
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By Amnesty International
Responding to a Lighthouse Reports publication documenting how First Wap, a surveillance company registered in Indonesia, has allegedly been covertly selling its products to state and private actors by exploiting gaps in export control regulations, Elina Castillo Jiménez, Advocacy and Policy Advisor for the Security Lab at Amnesty International, said: “This investigation is just the […] The post Europe: New Lighthouse Reports investigation confirms regulatory gaps fueling surveillance industry appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
Robert*, 20, Madagascar We want our voices to be heard. For too long, young people have been ignored, even though we represent the future of this nation. Protesting is not just an act of resistance. We are exercising our fundamental right to speak out and express our discontent. By being present in the streets and […] The post The Gen-Z Movement: This is why we’re risking our lives to protest appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image (L-R) Kesha Moore and Anne Houghtaling call on the US Supreme Court to uphold a fair and representative congressional map in Louisiana v. Callais on March 24, 2025 in Washington, DC. © 2025 Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Legal Defense Fund On October 15, the Supreme Court will rehear Louisiana v. Callais, which could determine whether Black voters have a meaningful chance at equal representation in Congress. The question before the court is a crucial one: does creating majority-Black districts to comply with the Voting Rights Act amount to unconstitutional racial…
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By Albert Navarro García, Profesor titular de Derecho Financiero y Tributario, Universitat de Girona
Did you know that making one cotton t-shirt uses around 2,700 litres of water, around the amount that a person drinks in three years? Fast fashion may offer cheap, on-trend clothes, but it also generates an annual 12kg of textile waste per person in Europe, only 1% of which is recycled to make new garments.
The fast fashion industry produces too much, too fast, too cheap, but there are ways to slow it down – in recent years, the EU and European countries have begun to propose, and implement,
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Tony Burke on Thursday will outline new powers to combat money laundering, terrorism financing and crime risks associated with cryptocurrency and Crypto ATMs.
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By Rahul Sidhu, PhD Candidate, Neuroscience, University of Sheffield
Alzheimer’s is a disease that robs people of their memory, and scientists have long sought ways to stop or reverse its effects. But the blood-brain barrier – the brain’s protective shield – has been both a friend and a foe. While it keeps harmful substances out, it also blocks many treatments from getting in.
Now researchers are trying a different approach. Rather than bypassing the barrier, they’re learning to work with it.
A new…
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By Francesco Grillo, Academic Fellow, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University
“The European green deal is something we owe to our children because we do not own this planet.” These words date back to a few days before Christmas 2019. They defined Ursula Von Der Leyen’s first presidency of the European Commission but belong to what now seems like a different era.
Now, six years later, after the COVID-19 pandemic and one (still ongoing) war in Europe, what is left of the European green deal? How can we fix what does remain of it? And why are European voters suffering…
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By Aviva Guttmann, Lecturer in Strategy and Intelligence, Aberystwyth University
Israel’s spies have a well-deserved reputation for ingenuity and ruthlessness, Not so well known is that they often rely on other countries’ intelligence.
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