By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image People walk past a campaign poster of Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in a market in Cairo ahead of the presidential election, December 7, 2023. © 2023 Khaled Desouki/AFP via Getty Images In an overdue but welcome step, Egypt’s Ministry of Finance has published data showing state owned enterprises, following 2024 tax reforms to remove their tax exemptions, contributed 67 billion pounds (US$1.4 billion) in tax revenue in FY2024/25 and is expected to raise 87 billion pounds (US$1.7 billion) in FY2025/26. While Human Rights Watch cannot verify the government…
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By Amnesty International
Responding to the presentation of a report by the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan (CHRSS) on Friday 27 February to the UN Human Rights Council that documents the deteriorating human rights situation in the country, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa Tigere Chagutah said; “The report by the Commission on […] The post South Sudan: As violations increase, UN Human Rights Council must renew mandate of Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Kirsty Coventry speaks at the Olympic House, in Lausanne, Switzerland, June 25, 2025. © 2025 Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP Photo United Nations human rights experts issued a damning public critique of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) plans to “sex test” all women athletes. Last year, the IOC started a secret process to “protect the female category,” and it appears the result is an impending announcement that all women athletes will undergo genetic sex testing for the Los Angeles 2028…
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By Nektarios Tzempelikos, Professor of Marketing and Deputy Director of the Research Centre for Intelligent Supply Chains, School of Management, Anglia Ruskin University
Pantea Foroudi, Associate Professor of Marketing and Director of Research, Department of Business Analytics and Marketing, Brunel University of London
A selling point of hotels has traditionally been the standardised service offered by their trained staff. In contrast, “peer-to-peer” accommodation – of which Airbnb is the most popular host platform – is usually run more informally by individual hosts who have little if any formal hospitality training.
What they offer instead is personal interaction, a sense of authenticity, and local knowledge about the area. And our multi-year research shows that this is often rated much more highly by visiting guests.
Our study (with colleagues), recently published in the
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By Lewis Mattin, Senior Lecturer, Life Sciences, University of Westminster
Appetite is governed by gut hormones, not willpower. GLP-1 therapies extend natural satiety signals and expose the biology behind eating.
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By Anna Nekaris, Professor of Ecology, Conservation and Environment, Anglia Ruskin University
The moment a cage door is opened and an animal released is often seen as the ultimate good news. When a captive wild animal is freed, the media often applauds, public support swells and donations to welfare charities surge.
But as a new study by myself and colleagues reveals, there is a dark side to returning animals to the wild.
Illegal trafficking in wildlife yields billions…
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By Lucy Core, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Brain Behaviour Group, UCL
When people hear the word dementia, they often think of someone who has problems with memory. While memory is often affected in dementia, this is not always the case. There are many different types of dementia – and each can produce a wide range of symptoms.
A recent case study has even described a 68-year-old man with a rare form of dementia that caused him to develop a fascination with a very specific type of noise. As this type of dementia has only been recently…
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By Amalendu Misra, Professor of International Politics, Lancaster University
Mexico has been following the same rulebook of engagement with the cartels for much of the past two decades, with very limited success.
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By Tilly Clough, Lecturer in Law, Queen's University Belfast
While the legal route from independent to state provision technically still exists, it has largely fallen out of use, with no conversions taking place since 2017.
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By Andrew Kloeden, PhD Candidate in Management, University of Exeter
For many workers, the benefits of professional relationships and the networks they create are clear. Bringing together people and social spheres that are otherwise unconnected is linked to higher salaries and more rapid promotion. So it’s no surprise that “networking” is a serious business for so many professionals.
In network theory, the process of linking unconnected people and groups – either within the workplace or outside it – is…
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