By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Activists attend a procession to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on November 25, 2025. © 2025 MD Abu Sufian Jewel/NurPhoto via AP Photo On February 12, Bangladesh is scheduled to hold its first general elections since the country’s August 2024 Monsoon revolution. But ahead of the elections, attacks on women, girls, and religious minorities are on the rise, exposing the interim government’s failure to protect fundamental human rights. Police data shows that gender-based violence increased between…
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By Gisèle Yasmeen, JW McConnell Professor of Practice, Max Bell School of Public Policy, McGill University
Julian Tayarah, Master's Student, Public Policy, McGill University
Umme Salma, Master's Student, Public Policy, McGill University
Across the world, urbanization affects how food is grown, distributed and consumed, and cities are primary drivers changing food systems.
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By Heba Ghazal, Senior Lecturer, Pharmacy, Kingston University
Urology departments in England and Wales have seen an increase in users admitted for bladder inflammation caused by ketamine use.
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By Leonie Fleischmann, Senior Lecturer in International Politics, City St George's, University of London
The ceasefire in Gaza is on shaky ground as Donald Trump looks to progress his peace plan on to its second phase.
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By Marion Vannier, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Manchester; Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
Hope is not a soft word in prison. It shapes how people cope with their sentence and it determines whether - and how - they engage with staff and other prisoners.
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By Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian, Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, University of Cambridge
Christelle Langley, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Cambridge
Sadly, there is no cure for Huntington’s disease. But a couple new research papers suggests this may be about to change.
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By Erhan Kilincarslan, Reader in Accounting and Finance, University of Huddersfield
UK inflation may be easing, but many households still find their weekly shop getting more expensive. One key reason is something not captured in headline prices: shrinkflation, where manufacturers reduce pack sizes without reducing the price.
Shrinkflation has become more common thanks to the steep increase in the cost of living in recent years. A 2025…
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By Matt Jacobsen, Senior Lecturer in Film History in the School of Society and Environment, Queen Mary University of London
I would be surprised if anything else at the cinema in 2026 can match the bizarre spectacle of The Bone Temple’s best sequence.
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By Akhil Bhardwaj, Associate Professor (Strategy and Organisation), School of Management, University of Bath
Governments across the world want AI to do more of the heavy lifting when it comes to public services. The plan is apparently to make make things much more efficient, as algorithms quietly handle a country’s day to day admin.
For example, AI might help tackle tax fraud, by working out ways of targeting those most likely to be offending. Or it might be to help public health services screen for various cancers, triaging cases at scale and flagging those deemed most at risk.
But what…
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By Vassilis Galanos, Lecturer in Digital Work in the Management, Work and Organisation Division, Stirling Business School, University of Stirling
Around the turn of the century, the internet underwent a transformation dubbed “web 2.0”. The world wide web of the 1990s had largely been read-only: static pages, hand-built homepages, portal sites with content from a few publishers.
Then came the dotcom crash of 2000 to 2001, when many heavily financed, lightly useful internet businesses collapsed. In the aftermath, surviving companies and new entrants leaned into a different logic that the author-publisher Tim O’Reilly later described…
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