By Valentina Fantasia, Associate Professor of Cognitive Science, Lund University
Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi, Professor of Psychology, University of Warsaw
As adults interact with kids, they share views and create new knowledge. So what happens if screens take over that interaction?
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By Ala Sirriyeh, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Lancaster University
Child refugees could live their entire childhoods in Britain with no guarantee that they will remain in the place they have come to think of as home.
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By Jenna Cash, Lecturer, School of Regeneration and Repair, University of Edinburgh
Millions of people around the world live with wounds that simply won’t heal. These long-lasting wounds, often caused by diabetes, poor circulation or pressure, can be painful, prone to infection and can seriously affect quality of life. In severe cases, they can lead to amputation.
Current treatments help manage symptoms, but they don’t always address the underlying problem. That…
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By Amnesty International
To counter the increasing criminalization of human rights defenders, activists and journalists across the world, Amnesty International, the African Policing Civilian Oversight Forum (APCOF) and Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM) will publish a briefing on 27 November, outlining a series of legal and advocacy strategies to protect critical voices from discrimination, harassment, prosecution and imprisonment. The […] The post Global: How human rights defenders can pushback against their criminalization appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Mustapha Djemali. © Private (Beirut) – Five employees of the Tunisian Council for Refugees will go on trial on November 24, 2025, amid a broader crackdown on civil society groups in Tunisia, Human Rights Watch said today. The Tunisian authorities should drop the unfounded charges, release two detained employees, and stop criminalizing the legitimate work of independent groups.Tunisian authorities shut down the council, froze its bank accounts, and are prosecuting six of its employees for their work assisting asylum seekers and refugees as a partner of the United Nations…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A fan pays homage to the 10 athletes who died in the February 8, 2019 fire at the Flamengo Training Center. Photo taken on February 14, 2019 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. © 2019 Buda Mendes/Getty Images (Rio de Janeiro) – Reports that alleged systemic failures at Brazil’s top football club led to the deaths of 10 child athletes in a fire in 2019 raise critical questions about safeguarding and accountability in Brazilian sport, the Sport & Rights Alliance said today.The acquittal of senior Flamengo club officials on October 21, 2025, was devastating and contradicts…
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By Pennie Lindeque, Professor of Marine Ecology, Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Emily Stevenson, Affiliate, Microbiology, University of Exeter
Small plastic pellets, used in wastewater treatment facilities since the 1990s, are more than just plastic pollution – they carriy potentially dangerous bacteria.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks at the United Nations headquarters in New York City, US, September 23, 2025. © 2025 Chen Mengtong/China News Service/VCG via AP Photo In February 2026, it will be 80 years since the United Nations selected its first secretary-general, a man. Since then, eight other people have had that job, all men. Surely, it’s long past time a woman held the post. António Guterres, the current secretary-general, completes his term in December 2026. Maneuvering over his successor is well underway. Also underway is a campaign,…
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By Forus
From Kathmandu to Antananarivo, from Jakarta to Lima, a digital native generation is shaking the foundations of power and teaching the world that democracy’s revival may come not from institutions, but from those who’ve lost faith in them.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Those around Sussan Ley seem confident her fragile leadership would survive into next year. But some in the party look to Andrew Hastie as the parties future.
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