By Nicholas Ross Smith, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Waikato
Borrowed from psychiatry, the term “ontological security” describes how nations understand themselves and their place in the world – and how it can break down.
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By Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch is deeply saddened by the death on June 3, 2026, of Carola Frediani at the age of 51 following a long illness. Carola was an information and security technologist at Human Rights Watch and a longtime journalist. She was regarded as an authoritative voice on the relationship between technology, security, and digital rights. Click to expand Image Carola Fredani. “Carola was a valued and beloved member of the close-knit information security team at Human Rights Watch, and her loss will be deeply felt,” said Philippe Bolopion, executive director of Human Rights Watch.…
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Thursday, June 4, 2026
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called on Thursday for greater protection for environmental and land defenders, noting that hundreds worldwide have been killed or detained in recent years.
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By Derek Armitage, Professor, School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability, University of Waterloo
Ella-Kari Muhl, Researcher, Centre for Sustainability Transitions, Stellenbosch University
There is no shortage of global objectives and targets driving ocean conservation. However, protecting oceans depends on the communities that steward them.
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By Alexander Hill, Professor of Military History, University of Calgary
Two years after Canada’s parliament unwittingly gave a standing ovation to a veteran of a Nazi SS division, Ukraine’s own president is honouring figures from the same dark chapter of wartime nationalism.
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By Weizhi Deng, Ph.D. Student in Atmospheric and Environmental Science, University of Iowa
Jun Wang, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Iowa
Meng Zhou, Researcher in Atmospheric and Earth Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The US had been reducing surface-level ozone, a harmful pollutant and the main component of smog, but that changed as wildfire activity picked up around 2015.
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By Michael J. Highfield, Provost and Executive Vice President, Mississippi College; Mississippi State University
Investors’ inflation expectations, much more than the central bank, are among the factors that affect the cost of home loans.
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By Pamela Beach, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Queen's University, Ontario
Kristy Timmons, Associate Professor, Early Childhood Education, Queen's University, Ontario
The best part of having fun with rhymes and words, noticing letters and reading together is that interactions build both early literacy skills and family connections.
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By Amnesty International
Amnesty International calls for the immediate and unconditional release of civilians being held hostage by armed groups in Manipur, warning that their continued captivity reflects a deepening human rights crisis amid the authorities’ ongoing failure to protect people from escalating ethnic violence in the state. Twenty people have been taken hostage by armed groups from the Kuki and Naga communities in Manipur following escalating inter-ethnic tensions […] The post India: Release all hostages and end cycle of violence in Manipur appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
The Egyptian authorities must immediately halt the unjust prosecutions of three human rights activists arrested solely for organizing a peaceful event calling for the release of those arbitrarily detained, Amnesty International said today. On 25 May, Egyptian police arrested pharmacist Hanan Altantawy, and lawyers Mohamed Abu al-Dayyar and Wafaa al-Masry, all members of the informal group the Committee to Defend Prisoners of Conscience (CDPC), for the group’s involvement in organizing a public event in Cairo two weeks earlier highlighting cases of people unjustly detained for political reasons. Altantawy and al-Masry were…
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