By Charles Emogor, Schmidt Science Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge
Nigeria accounts for the largest volume of detected pangolin scales illegally traded from Africa. Between 2010 and 2021, 190,000kg of scales – representing nearly 800,000 African pangolins – were seized in shipments linked to Nigeria, despite a ban on international trade.
Pangolins are scaly mammals found across…
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By Edward White, PhD Candidate in Psychology, Kingston University
Carl Mork is depressed, traumatised and unlikeable. His team are a bit odd too. Surprisingly, they’re all very good at their jobs.
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By Elena Moore, Professor of Sociology, University of Cape Town
Vayda Megannon, Doctoral candidate, University of Cape Town
Zeenat Samodien, Researcher and Data Manager at Family Caregiving Programme for Older Persons in Southern Africa, University of Cape Town
In South Africa, most long-term care for older people happens at home through the efforts of family members, largely female kin, not through government services.
With South Africa’s population growing older, combined with reduced funding for community care, higher levels of disability in old age, and widespread poverty and unemployment, family care has become more important than ever and more challenging. But government and policy…
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By Human Rights Watch
(Stockholm, June 13, 2025) – Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen should use Denmark’s upcoming Presidency of the Council of the European Union to champion human rights, the rule of law, and accountability across the EU and beyond, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to the Danish government.Denmark will hold the rotating EU presidency from July to December 2025, a pivotal period for the protection of EU values amid democratic backsliding within the bloc and ongoing crises at Europe’s borders and further afield.“Denmark has a real opportunity to show principled leadership at a time when some EU…
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By Ramna Saeed
In recent months, journalists in Pakistan have faced rising threats, abductions, and arrests, highlighting a hostile environment where judicial harassment, intimidation and violence are used to suppress independent journalism.
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By Jean-Christophe Brunet
Wikiteny, an interactive workshop, was born of a collaboration between Wikipedia and Global Voices, gathered students, citizens and bloggers around a common objective: promoting Malagasy.
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By Amnesty International
A hallway lit by opera When I was very little, we lived in an apartment building on the campus of Minzu University in Beijing. The hallway lights were sound-activated, so you had to clap or make noise to turn them on. Our home was at the very end, and instead of clapping or stomping, my […] The post Opera, ice cream, activism – daughter of jailed Uyghur scholar shares Father’s Day memories appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
Responding to the publication of a Citizen Lab report identifying Italian journalist Ciro Pellegrino and another who has chosen to remain anonymous, as the latest targets of Paragon’s spyware in Europe, Elina Castillo Jiménez, Advocacy and Policy Advisor on targeted surveillance at Amnesty International, said: “The discovery that Paragon’s highly invasive Graphite spyware has been […] The post Italy: New case of journalist targeted with Graphite spyware confirms widespread use of unlawful surveillance appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amin Saikal, Emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies, Australian National University; and Vice Chancellor's Strategic Fellow, Victoria University
Trump had good reason to try to constrain Netanyahu while nuclear talks with Iran proceeded, but Israel decided instead to try to behead the ‘octopus’.
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By Erin Smith, Associate Professor and Discipline Lead (Paramedicine), La Trobe University
Viswashkumar Ramesh, a British citizen returning from a trip to India, has been confirmed as the only survivor of Thursday’s deadly Air India crash.
“I don’t know how I am alive,” Ramesh told family, according to his brother Nayan, in a video call moments after emerging from the wreckage. Another brother Ajay, seated elswhere on the plane, was killed.
The Boeing 787-7…
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