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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By Bradley Ward, Teaching Fellow, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Southampton
Joseph Ward, Teaching Associate in Politics, University of Sheffield
Prime Minister Keir Starmer was forced to make changes to his top team by Angela Rayner’s resignation amid a stamp duty scandal, but has ended up using the opportunity to implement a major reshuffle at No 10 too. Key roles have been handed out to ministers on Labour’s right flank, who have been…
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By Petra Alderman, Manager of the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science
In the space of just three weeks, the Shinawatra family has suffered a succession of blows that threaten to undo its more than two decades at the top of Thai politics. The first blow came in late August when the constitutional court removed Paetongtarn Shinawatra from premiership for ethical misconduct.
The Pheu Thai party, whose de facto leader is Paetongtarn’s father and former Thai prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, lost…
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By Martin Whyte, Associate Professor of Metabolic Medicine, University of Surrey
Semaglutide (better known as Wegovy) may help people with obesity lose up to 25% of their body weight when used at a higher dose.
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By Jennifer Donnelly, Doctoral Researcher, Meditation-based Interventions in Clinical Settings, Centre of Positive Health Sciences, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
“Be kind to yourself” is a piece of advice that’s often given to people during difficult times or moments of stress. But for someone who is driven, a perfectionist or facing pressure, the idea of self-compassion can feel uncomfortable. To them, kindness might feel like letting themselves off the hook.
But research actually shows that consistently feeling shame and self-judgment can activate the body’s stress response just as strongly as physical danger. This increases cortisol…
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By Sarah Price, Research Fellow at the Leeds Sustainability Institute, Leeds Beckett University
Insulation is designed to make heating our homes more efficient, but if it isn’t installed properly it can sometimes lead to condensation, damp and mould. Recently UK government ministers revealed the scale of the issue and reported that thousands of homes may have had botched insulation fitted since 2022 under a government scheme called the Energy Company Obligation.
Many people have also told…
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