By Imraan Valodia, Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director: Southern Centre for Inequality Studies., University of the Witwatersrand
Julia Taylor, Researcher: Climate and Inequality, University of the Witwatersrand
Sonia Phalatse, Researcher, University of the Witwatersrand
The concept of care can serve as a powerful focal point for understanding the climate challenge and for policies toward a sustainable and equitable future.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A member of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) walks between damaged buildings, almost one year into the armed conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), in Omdurman, Sudan, April 7, 2024. © 2024 EI Tayeb Siddig/Reuters This week, member states of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) from all regions overwhelmingly voted to renew the mandate of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) for the Sudan, established in 2023. The move was widely backed by Sudanese activists.The fact-finding mission is mandated…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Participants in the 27th Joint GCC-EU Ministerial Council pose for a group photo in Muscat on October 10, 2023. © 2023 AFP via Getty Images (Brussels) – European Union and member states’ leaders should urge their Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) counterparts to release unjustly jailed critics and commit to substantive human rights reforms at an October 16, 2024 summit, Human Rights Watch said today. The EU should also push for structural reforms on freedom of expression, freedom of association, labor rights, and women’s rights in negotiations for partnership agreements.The…
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By Safa
Data collection and technology can be harmful, especially when used to monitor and subjugate marginalized people. This can be seen most clearly in how Israel has used technology in its war against Palestinians.
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By Wayne Palmer, Senior Research Fellow, Bielefeld University
Overlooked and vulnerable, it is in Indonesia’s interest to protect the rights of foreign professionals to sustain economic growth and maintain its global reputation.
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By Lisa M. Given, Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
Like the whole idea of banning young people from social media, allowing limited access to platforms that have a “low risk of harm” is deeply flawed.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Smoke rises from Israeli airstrikes in the southern village of Kfar Rouman, south Lebanon, September 25, 2024. © 2024 Hussein Malla/AP Photo (Beirut) – The Israeli military has carried out repeated attacks harming United Nations peacekeeping operations in southwestern Lebanon in apparent violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said today. Israeli forces should cease unlawful attacks and allow the UN mission to fulfill its civilian protection and humanitarian duties as mandated by the UN Security Council.In a public statement, the United Nations Interim…
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By Ali Mamouri, Research fellow, Middle East Studies, Deakin University
Shahram Akbarzadeh, Convenor, Middle East Studies Forum (MESF), and Deputy Director (International), Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
Calls in Iran for a revision of the country’s nuclear defence doctrine are growing louder as Israel’s attacks on Iran’s main proxy group, Hezbollah, intensify.
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By Jacqueline Boyd, Senior Lecturer in Animal Science, Nottingham Trent University
It might sound far-fetched, but recent research suggests that dogs’ and humans’ brains synchronise when they look at each other.
This research, conducted by researchers in China, is the first time that “neural coupling” between different species has been witnessed.
Neural coupling is when the brain activity of two or more individuals aligns during an interaction. For humans, this is often in response to a conversation or story.
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By Ali Mamouri, Research fellow, Middle East Studies, Deakin University
Shahram Akbarzadeh, Convenor, Middle East Studies Forum (MESF), and Deputy Director (International), Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
Calls in Iran for a revision of the country’s nuclear defence doctrine are growing louder as Israel’s attacks on Iran’s main proxy group, Hezbollah, intensify.
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