By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image People rally on International Women's Day in Jakarta demanding the Indonesian government pass an anti-discrimination law and ratify the International Labor Organization (ILO) convention concerning the elimination of sexual violence and harassment at work, March 8, 2024. © 2024 Bay Ismoyo/AFP via Getty Images Gender stereotypes are such a pervasive part of everyday life that it can be hard to even recognize them—but they do extraordinary damage and are at the root of many forms of inequality and violence.Under the international Convention on the Elimination of All…
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By Michael Parker, Director of Operations, The Conversation
Professor Jeremy Howick, University of Leicester, receiving the 2025 Professor Sir Paul Curran award from Lady Curran, at a celebration of authors’ work.
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By Bamo Nouri, Honorary Research Fellow, Department of International Politics, City St George's, University of London
Inderjeet Parmar, Professor in International Politics, City St George's, University of London
The US and Israel believed that military superiority would be enough to humble Iran. It looks as if they were wrong.
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By Christian Emery, Associate Professor in International Politics, UCL
Two months into the war in Iran, the reasons the US gave for launching this conflict – and Washington’s minimum criteria for claiming success – now appear unintelligible. So much so that US officials are now arguing the war had actually ended in America’s favour almost a month ago, when the ceasefire came into effect.
It is hard to think…
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By Sisanda Nkoala, Associate professor, University of the Western Cape
How does a medium once branded “the devil’s own box” become the fireplace around which a nation tries to rekindle its broken identity?
This question lies at the heart of our recently published book that marks 50 years since the flicker of the first…
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By Adriana Marin, Lecturer in International Relations, Coventry University
Netflix’s latest drama Legends offers a compelling window into the criminology of undercover policing, covert surveillance and organised crime.
Inspired by a real UK customs investigation, the six-part drama follows ordinary British customs officers sent deep undercover to infiltrate drug trafficking gangs.
Written by Neil Forsyth (also creator…
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By Natasha Lindstaedt, Professor in the Department of Government, University of Essex
Pakistan’s relationships with the US and Iran put it in a strong position to intervene – not to mention a need to stabilise its borders and protect its own economy.
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By Sorin M.S. Krammer, Professor of Strategy and International Business, University of Southampton
Until recently, AI’s role in research felt like having a useful assistant. It could summarise a paper, clean up a dataset or draft an abstract. Researchers were still in charge of the thinking.
That changed in late 2025 when cutting-edge “frontier” AI models became capable of reasoning and planning reliably by themselves. A key feature of these models is “tool…
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By Lain Dare, Professor, Centre for Environmental Governance, University of Canberra
Mark Evans, Adjunct professor, Charles Sturt University
Max Halupka, Senior lecturer, University of Canberra
Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
In Australia’s regional heartland, something unusual is happening — and voters know it.
For decades, elections in regional seats such as Farrer have followed a familiar script: predictable outcomes, entrenched party loyalties, and little sense that individual votes could change the result. But with the retirement of Sussan Ley after 25 years in the seat this time is different, and voters and political pundits are all taking notice.
On Wednesday night we brought together eight Farrer voters in a focus group to share a snapshot of community views and insights prior to Saturday’s…
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By Rachel Bouserhal, Associate Professor, École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS)
Long before the tell-tale signs of Parkinson’s disease appear, including tremors and muscle stiffness, there are other, more subtle signs of the disease.
These include changes in oral pronunciation and language and difficulties breathing or swallowing.
People with Alzheimer’s disease can also experience a reduction in their vocabulary and a tendency to repeat certain words. These…
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