By Amnesty International
Upon concluding a four-day visit to Ireland in which she met with government officials, civil society organizations and human rights defenders, Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty International’s Senior Director for Research, Advocacy, Policy and Campaigns, said: “We have acknowledged the Irish government’s longstanding commitment to protecting human rights around the world and urge it to maintain a […] The post Ireland: Government must do more to protect the international justice system and hold Israel accountable appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
Amnesty International calls on the Salvadoran authorities to immediately and unconditionally guarantee the release of community defenders José Ángel Pérez and Alejandro Henríquez, who have been unjustly imprisoned since May 2025 after participating in a peaceful protest in defense of the rights of the El Bosque community. This comes ahead of a hearing scheduled for […] The post El Salvador: Prisoners of Conscience must be released immediately appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Lingshan Li, PhD candidate, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University
Canada’s climate is warming twice as fast as the global average, and many cities will experience at least four times as many extreme heat events (days above 30 C) per year in the coming decades.
In Québec alone, elevated summer temperatures were associated with about 470 deaths,…
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By Styliani Panetsidou, Assistant Professor of Finance, Coventry University
Angelos Synapis, Assistant Professor of Accounting and Finance, Centre for Resilient Business and Society, Coventry University
When you think about your environmental footprint, what comes to mind first? Maybe the flights you take, the car you drive or whether you choose the train instead. Perhaps it is the plastic you try to avoid, the clothes you buy or the food on your plate. But what about your money – how often do you think about where it is kept and what it supports?
Banks are a part of our everyday lives. We use them to receive salaries, make transactions, pay bills or take out loans and mortgages. Yet behind every transaction…
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By Darren Rhodes, Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology and Environmental Temporal Cognition Lab Director, Keele University, Keele University
Continuous sleep is a modern habit, not an evolutionary constant, which helps explain why many of us still wake at 3am and wonder if something’s wrong. It might help to know that this is a deeply human experience.
For most of human history, a continuous eight-hour snooze was not the norm. Instead, people commonly slept in two shifts each night, often called a “first sleep” and “second sleep.” Each of these sleeps lasted…
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By Jan Wilcox, Senior lecturer, University of Westminster
Whether a new tenant or an existing tenant, it has never been more important to keep abreast of new developments in the law.
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By Adam Taylor, Professor of Anatomy, Lancaster University
This article contains spoilers for the current season of Celebrity Traitors.
When TV comedian Alan Carr was selected to be a traitor, his joy quickly turned to anxiety. He proclaimed he had a “sweating problem” – and that he wasn’t able to keep a secret. A less than ideal combination for him, but for viewers it’s TV gold.
Anyone who has ever been caught in a lie or found themselves in tense circumstances might have related to Carr. But why is it that so many of us sweat when we’re in stressful…
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By Dylan O'Driscoll, Associate Professor in Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation, Coventry University
Birte Vogel, Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester
Eric Lepp, Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Waterloo
By systematically tracking changes in murals over time, we have gained profound insights into the dynamics of peace and conflict.
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By Rebecca Wynne-Walsh, Lecturer in Film, English and Creative Arts, Edge Hill University
Sourcing family friendly frightening fiction can be a bit challenging. That said, while straightforward horror texts rarely serve family audiences, the gothic is a mode of storytelling that has a long history of delighting and disgusting parents and children alike.
Naturally, there is intellectual and stylistic value to both classic horror and the gothic. However, while horror interacts more directly with fear, the gothic favours observing…
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By Solaja Mayowa Oludele, Lecturing, Olabisi Onabanjo University
Every year humanity produces nearly 300 million tonnes of plastic. Only a fraction ever gets recycled. Most ends up in rivers, oceans and soil, slowly breaking down into tiny, invisible microplastics that get into what we eat and drink.
Decades of recycling drives and policy bans…
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