By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Afghan journalist and producer Sadaf Rahimi (L) directs the talk show "Tabassoum" (“Smile,” in Dari) hosted by Afghan refugee journalist Diba Akbari (center) and former Afghan actress Marina Golbahari (right) in Begum TV studio, an educational television channel aimed at middle and high school girls deprived of education by the Taliban authorities since August 2021, Paris, March 12, 2024. © 2024 GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP via Getty Images Around the world, journalists who have been forced to flee their countries have continued to report on their homelands, exposing…
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By Mira Sucharov, Professor of Political Science, Carleton University
A wave of protests expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people is spreading across college and university campuses. There were more than 400 such demonstrations by the end of April 2024 just in the U.S., with many more in Canada and other countries.
The…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A woman and her children wait at a bus station in Kathmandu, May 11, 2022. © 2022 Sipa via AP Images When Nepal’s Finance Minister Barshaman Pun presents the budget on May 28, he has an opportunity to extend the country’s Child Grant program. Doing so would advance the economic and social rights of Nepali children, helping families across the country. The Child Grant, also known as the child nutrition grant, is a proven Nepali success story. The program involves monthly payments to families with children under the age of five in 25 out of Nepal’s 77 districts, and all…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Suhrob Zafar, year unknown © Guruhi24.com (Berlin, May 3, 2024) – Tajik authorities should immediately confirm the detention and whereabouts of and release the opposition activist Sukhrob Zafar, Human Rights Watch, Norwegian Helsinki Committee, and International Partnership for Human Rights said today. Based on a media report and reports from reliable sources, Zafar was forcibly disappeared while in Türkiye in March 2024, despite holding official UNHCR asylum seeker status there. The sources said that the Tajik State Committee on National Security is holding him in…
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Thursday, May 2nd 2024
As protests continue in Georgia over a proposed draft law on curbing foreign influence, UN Human Rights Commissioner Volker Türk on Thursday urged the authorities to shelve the controversial bill and engage in dialogue.
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By Ben Beaglehole, Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago
New research shows the massive gap between those with ADHD and the number of people who are prescribed the medicine that can help.
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By Sarah Marie Wiebe, Assistant Professor, School of Public Administration, University of Victoria
Alexandra Bridges, Project Manager, Keepers of the Circle
Leah Levac, Associate Professor of Community Engagement and Political Science, University of Guelph
The federal government’s proposed Bill C-226 could be an important first step in addressing environmental racism, but only if communities are involved.
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By Sukhmani Khorana, Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, UNSW Sydney
Season two gives us a multifaceted, everyday reality. In exploring banal multiculturalism, the show gets closer to showing us everyday Australia.
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By Barbara Caine, Professor of History, University of Sydney
In 1970, Sexual Politics explained why sexual relationships – and indeed sex itself – are political. ‘The world was sleeping,’ wrote Andrea Dworkin of this book. ‘And Kate Millett woke it up.’
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By Oliver Bown, Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney
‘Uncanny’ AI music generators blur the line between creators and consumers. Will they turn music from high art to an everyday language? Listen to these AI-generated tracks and judge for yourself.
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