Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Fifty-two prisoners have died in Haiti’s overcrowded prisons between July and September this year in conditions that have been described by the United Nations as “inhuman and degrading.”
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A vigil on 18 January 2024 in Dortmund, Germany, on the anniversary of the deportation of Tajikistan opposition activist Abdullohi Shamsiddin. The banner reads: ‘Bring Him Back!’ © 2024 Cornelia Suhan (Berlin) - Last month a 29 year old man from Tajikistan, who had been living in central Germany since 2019, died under mysterious circumstances in prison in Tajikistan. Saidazam Rahmonov, who was married to a German woman, had travelled to Tajikistan in June to gather documents needed to extend his visa in Germany.Tajikistan authorities claim that Rahmonov committed…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image The Majlis, the lower house of Kazakhstan's Parliament, is seen in Astana, Kazakhstan, on October 11, 2015. © 2015 REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (Berlin, November 11, 2025) – Lawmakers in Kazakhstan should reject a draft law with amendments that would ban “propaganda of non-traditional sexual orientation,” seven international human rights groups said today. The groups are Access Now, Civil Rights Defenders; Eurasian Coalition on Health, Rights, Gender and Sexual Diversity; Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights; Human Rights Watch; International Partnership for Human…
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By Human Rights Watch
Many of her videos showed laughter, music, and the color of daily life in Tonka, her hometown on the edge of Mali’s desert near Timbuktu. On TikTok, 20-year-old Mariam Cissé, besides sharing moments of joy, often voiced support for the Malian armed forces in a region ravaged by armed conflict since 2012. Last week, those videos, viewed by nearly 100,000 followers, had deadly consequences. Click to expand Image A screenshot of Mariam Cissé in a video posted on TikTok in September 2025. © Private On November 6, Islamist fighters, allegedly from the Al Qaeda-linked Group for the Support…
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By Jean-Charles Pelland, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Psychosocial Science, University of Bergen
Most of us have little trouble working out how many millilitres are in 2.4 litres of water (it’s 2,400). But the same can’t be said when we’re asked how many minutes are in 2.4 hours (it’s 144).
That’s because the Indo-Arabic numerals we often use to represent numbers are base-10, while the system we often use to measure time is base-60.
Expressing time in decimal notation leads to an interaction between these two bases, which can have implications at both the cognitive and cultural level.
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By Alison Taylor, Professor, Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia
Juggling, sword swallowing, contorting: What I heard in interviews and research with students studying and working to get ahead shaped using circus arts metaphors to understand and analyze their experiences.
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By Mark Tsagas, Senior Lecturer in Law, Cybercrime & AI Ethics, University of East London
A variety of websites now have processes designed to verify the ages of their users. These checks are carried out in several ways. For instance, AI can be used to analyse whether a photo of the person looks old enough for the age threshold on a website.
Asking for photo ID, such as a scan of a person’s driving licence or passport, is another method, along with asking for a verified credit card.
However, the amount of personal data involved in completing age verification comprises a…
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By Simon Potter, Professor of Modern History, University of Bristol
Allegations of political bias - generally that the BBC leans to the left - have existed for almost as long as the corporation has.
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By Helen Pleasance, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and English Literature, York St John University
Fraser Mann, Senior Lecturer in Literature, York St John University
Robert Edgar, Professor of Writing and Popular Culture, York St John University
Music is deeply woven into our sense of self and place, becoming, in effect, an emotional map of a person’s life.
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By Marissa Martin, Analyst, Science and Emerging Technology Team, RAND Europe
More than 50 years after the last time humans walked on the Moon, China is working steadily towards landing its astronauts on the lunar surface.
On October 30, 2025, a spokesman for China’s crewed space programme said the country was “on track” to launch its lunar mission by 2030. So how does China plan to send astronauts to the Moon?
Among legislators and senior figures in the US space sector, China’s progress towards a crewed lunar mission…
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