By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image State teachers and school principals hold placards during a protest demanding relief from the upcoming budget, in front of the Ministry of Education in Colombo, Sri Lanka, February 14, 2025. © 2025 CHAMILA KARUNARATHNE/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Sri Lanka’s tax policies played a driving role in the country’s devastating 2022 economic crisis and contribute to chronic underfunding of education and other public services.The government should consider eliminating corporate tax exemptions given their high cost, questionable effectiveness, and vulnerability to abuse, and adopt…
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By Gilles E. Gignac, Associate Professor of Psychology, The University of Western Australia
As your youth fades further into the past, you may start to fear growing older.
But research my colleague and I have recently published in the journal Intelligence shows there’s also very good reason to be excited: for many of us, overall psychological functioning actually peaks between ages 55 and 60.
And knowing this highlights why people in…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
While the Liberals have been performing reasonbly well in Parliament lately, Opposition Leader Sussan Ley still…
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By Jerome Lorenz, Biology Researcher, Florida International University
The gradual return of flamingos to Florida coincides with long-term efforts to restore the Everglades and the state’s coastal ecosystems.
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By Cassandra Mudgway, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Canterbury
Online abuse designed to humiliate, coerce or silence women and minority politicians is taking its toll. With a general election next year, the rules have to change.
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By Amnesty International
Amnesty International, Peace Brigades International and Front Line Defenders will be closely monitoring the sentencing this week of Indigenous land defenders who have been criminalized by Canada for protecting unceded Wet’suwet’en Territory against the construction of a fossil-fuel pipeline. A delegation of representatives from Amnesty International Canada’s English-speaking section, the organization’s Americas Regional Office, and […] The post International human rights organizations to monitor sentencing of Indigenous land defenders criminalized by Canada appeared first on Amnesty International.…
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By Rick Thoman, Alaska Climate Specialist, University of Alaska Fairbanks
‘As the storm approached Alaska, everything went sideways,’ leaving people no time to evacuate and little time to prepare. An Alaska meteorologist explains what happened and the challenges ahead.
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By Joseph Mellors, Research Associate in Management and Marketing, University of Westminster
If you ask an AI service like ChatGPT or Google Gemini to recommend a destination for your next summer holiday, it will happily provide you with a list of attractive destinations. But many of them will be very familiar.
Paris, Venice, Santorini and Barcelona are all likely to feature, because the AI algorithm is nudging you towards the same old places. The illusion of personalised advice is what makes people less likely to question it – and why AI risks intensifying overtourism.
And the…
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By Colleen Murrell, Chair of the Editorial Board, and Full Professor in Journalism, Dublin City University
The world’s media are currently busy recording the tales of released Israeli hostages, freed Palestinian prisoners and their families after a ceasefire came into effect for the war in Gaza. But they are doing so while still being held at a distance from the centre of the story.
Foreign journalists have been banned by Israel from entering the Gaza Strip independently since the start of the war. And senior members of the international media are not optimistic…
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By Todd Landman, Professor of Political Science, University of Nottingham
Vicky Brotherton, Head of Policy Engagement and Impact, University of Nottingham
How many people in the UK are victims of modern slavery? At present, we don’t actually know. There is no consensus on the answer to this question, despite the wide interest in finding it, and the tools and data to do so.
Over a decade ago, before the passage of the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015, data analysts estimated that there were between 10,000 and 13,000 victims of modern slavery in the UK. Since then, there have been four further estimates between 2014 and 2023, ranging from…
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