By Natasha Lindstaedt, Professor in the Department of Government, University of Essex
Almost all of Donald Trump’s nominees for critical positions within his presidential administration have been non-traditional. Fox News presenter Pete Hegseth was just named as Trump’s possible defence secretary. Alongside Elon Musk, pharmaceutical company entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has been tapped to lead a newly named Department of Government Efficiency.
With little background in border protection, South Dakota…
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By Etienne Legrain, Chercheur, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Emilie Capron, Paléoclimatologue, CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
The equivalent of four more years of global CO₂ emissions could soon be released into the atmosphere, exacerbating climate change.
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By Stéphane Leman-Langlois, Professor, School of Social Work and Criminology, Université Laval
Aurélie Campana, Professeure titulaire de science politique, spécialiste des extrémismes, Université Laval
Samuel Tanner, Professor and Department Director, School of Criminology, Université de Montréal
Far-right groups and influencers blend their narratives into public concerns to spread their conspiracies and recruit more people to their worldview.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Sudan's RSF Manager of Operations Directorate Maj. Gen.Osman Mohamed HamidKHARTOUM, SUDAN - NOVEMBER 28: Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) manager of Operations directorate Maj. Gen.Osman Mohamed Hamid holds a press conference in Khartoum, Sudan on November 28, 2021. On November 8, 2024, he was sanctioned by the UN Security Council. © Mahmoud Hjaj/Anadolu Agency (New York) – The United Nations Security Council’s November 8, 2024 sanctions designations for two commanders of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are a positive first step in ensuring consequences for…
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By Human Rights Watch
As a co-founder of the Stop Killer Robots campaign, Human Rights Watch fully supports its longstanding call for states to launch negotiations on a new international treaty to prohibit and regulate autonomous weapon systems.As other delegations have noted, this is urgently—and we’d now say desperately—needed to protect humanity from the threats posed by removing human control from the use of force. The time for principles, declarations, codes of conduct, best practices, and other voluntary measures has passed. We agree with others that incremental steps are no substitute for explicit new international…
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By Isabela Carvalho
In June, the highest court in the country approved the decriminalization of marijuana possession for personal use, marking a significant step, while also raising questions.
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By Adesewa Olofinko
TotalEnergies, the headline sponsor of the AFCON tournament, has faced criticism for using sportwashing tactics to obscure its exploitation of African resources and contributing to climate challenges on the continent.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The Albanese government aims to rush through legislation within a fortnight for political donation and spending caps, after in-principle support from the opposition.
The new regime, to be unveiled by Special Minister of State Don Farrell on Friday, would impose a $20,000 “gift cap” on what any recipient could obtain from a particular donor in one calendar year.
The cap on the total amount a donor could give in a year, covering multiple recipients, is expected to be more than $600,000.
That cap is set high, both to stop donors getting around it and to head off…
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By Samuel A. Beatson, Lecturer in Finance, Risk and Banking, University of Nottingham
Fraudulent payments – where people are tricked into sending money to criminals – cost consumers £460 million in England and Wales last year. To give consumers more protection, the UK government now plans to give banks 72 hours to delay completion of potentially fraudulent transfers.
The growth of the decentralised finance sector – including cryptocurrencies and the
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By Colin Alexander, Senior Lecturer in Political Communications, Nottingham Trent University
In November 1984, BBC journalist Michael Buerk presented a series of dispatches from the small town of Korem in northern Ethiopia. He described the scenes he encountered as a famine of “biblical proportions” and that aid workers in the region had told him it was “the closest thing to hell on earth”.
The broadcasts had a profound emotional effect upon viewers in the UK, many of whom had not seen full colour images of a famine before. They inspired two popstars – The Boom Town Rats’ Bob Geldof and Ultravox’s Midge…
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