By Amnesty International
Responding to a landmark judgement by an Athens court which found four individuals linked to spyware maker Intellexa, guilty of unlawful access to private communication systems and data, and of violating privacy and data protection laws, Rebecca White, Amnesty International’s Security Lab Researcher said: “Almost four years since the ‘Predatorgate’ scandal hit Greece, we are finally seeing consequences for those involved in the abuse of surveillance technology. “Amnesty International and other organizations have shown time and again that Intellexa’s products have […] The post Greece: Convictions…
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By Laura
After learning her now ex-husband arranged for her to be raped by 50 men while unconscious, Gisèle Pelicot wrote a memoir, documenting her struggle and current state of mind.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Two Ukrainian soldiers work in a drone workshop in an undisclosed location near the Russian border in the Kursk region, on June 12, 2025. © 2025 Florent Vergnes/AFP via Getty Images More than a year after Ukrainian forces captured two North Korean soldiers in Russia’s Kursk region, the men’s future remains undecided. Under the Third Geneva Convention applicable to the armed conflict in Ukraine, prisoners of war (POWs) may be held until the end of active hostilities, but they can be repatriated or transferred to a third country before then.These men, among the thousands…
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By Gemma Ware, Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
Demographer Stuart Gietel-Basten tells The Conversation Weekly podcast why South Korea’s birth rate is climbing, and what that means for the future.
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By Victor (Vik) Pérez, Associate Professor of Practice, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Hub, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
For most of human existence, listening was closely tied to moments that carried meaning, emotion or survival. Nature supplied the backdrop – wind, water, animals – and music surfaced in hunting rituals, healing ceremonies and communal celebrations.
That balance began to shift with the industrial revolution, and the arrival…
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By Kevin Zapata Celestino, LSE Fellow in the Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
When we think about school bullying, we often focus on victims given the emotional toll they endure, the academic disruption they face and the long-term scars that follow them into adulthood.
Victim-centred research has been critical in shaping strategies to prevent bullying. But there’s a perspective that would help us understand bullying that is too often ignored: that of the aggressors themselves.
There is a growing body of research that explores how students themselves understand and explain…
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By Donald Amuah, Lecturer in Accounting and Finance, University of South Wales
Chibuzo Amadi, Lecturer in Accounting, University of South Wales
After 2008, tougher rules promised safer banking. Instead, they helped big lenders grow stronger, while choice on the high street shrank.
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By Elke Schwarz, Professor of Political Theory, Queen Mary University of London
Neil Renic, Lecturer in Ethics, University of New South Wales; Fellow of the Centre for Military Studies, University of Copenhagen
At the heart of this dispute is how Anthropic’s large language model Claude is being used in a military context.
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By Libby John, Professor of Sustainability, University of Lincoln
Sandra Varga, Associate Professor in Life Sciences, University of Lincoln
A yellow disc with rays of white – an icon of childhood drawings and a flower with healing properties. We have picnics on it, play football on it and make daisy chains out of it.
The common or lawn daisy, Bellis perennis, is probably familiar to most people living in temperate climates. But there may be few things you do not know about this fascinating and perhaps under estimated flower.
A flower made of little flowers
Each daisy is actually an inflorescence – a multitude of…
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By Polly Rippon, University Teacher in Journalism, University of Sheffield
When someone is arrested and under police investigation, we usually don’t know their names. Police reveal only their gender, age and the crime for which they are under suspicion, and the media reports it.
The arrests of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson were a striking exception to this practice. When the police said they had “arrested a man in his sixties from Norfolk” on February…
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