By Paul T. Mitchell, Professor of Defence Studies, Canadian Forces College
Barbara J. Falk, Professor, Department of Defence Studies, Royal Military College of Canada
From hockey games to Saturday Night Live commentary, Canada is increasingly focused on the direct threats made by United States President Donald Trump against its national sovereignty.
Context matters. These events are even more unsettling given…
(Full Story)
|
By Anna Sergi, Professor in Criminology, University of Essex
Peter Dutton says the CFMEU is the ‘modern-day mafia’. He wants US-style racketeering laws to target enterprises that engage in a pattern of criminal behaviour
(Full Story)
|
By Guest Contributor
The digital world is becoming the primary space where information is shared, and if our language does not have a presence there, it risks being forgotten by future generations.
(Full Story)
|
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Silence is not an option in the fight for human rights – that was the message on Thursday at an event honouring the legacy of the women who have shaped the United Nations’ commitment to gender equality.
(Full Story)
|
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Respect for human rights is not only a moral obligation but a necessity for economic stability, the UN’s top human rights official said on Thursday, during a visit to the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan.
(Full Story)
|
By Amnesty International
Reacting to the European Council’s conclusions of 20 March 2025 on the situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory Eve Geddie, the Director of Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office said: “After 17 months of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the fact that the EU refuses to name Israel, condemn air strikes wiping out entire families […] The post Europe: EU leaders’ ‘shameful’ attempt at justifying Israel’s genocide and war crimes against Palestinians appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
(Full Story)
|
By Amnesty International
In response to a U.S. jury in North Dakota ordering Greenpeace to pay at least $660m to the fossil fuel company Energy Transfer, having found the organization responsible for defamation and the actions of protesters opposed to the Dakota Access pipeline in 2016 and 2017, Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard said: “This devastating verdict […] The post USA: Chilling verdict against Greenpeace sets damaging precedent for protection and promotion of human rights and climate justice appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
(Full Story)
|
By Minkwan Kim, Associate Professor of Astronautics, University of Southampton
Ian Williams, Professor of Applied Environmental Science, University of Southampton
The world’s first artificial satellite, the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1, was launched in October 1957. Just three months later, it fell out of orbit. As Sputnik hit the upper atmosphere at incredible speed, the friction would have caused it to heat up and almost entirely burn off. Some small remnants of the satellite would have remained in the upper atmosphere, like smoke and ash after a fire: humankind’s first space debris.
Seven decades on, scientists like us are only just beginning to piece together how this space debris might be damaging the ozone layer, the climate and even human…
(Full Story)
|
By Karen Attar, Research Fellow in Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Books as a backdrop in a portrait or an interview lend gravitas. They stand for literacy, for education, for a way to open the mind, develop the imagination and get on in life. But not all books are considered to convey such benefits.
Opinions about which books are worthy and which are not have dogged fiction. Which are frivolous nonsense, sure to pollute the mind, and which are worthy intellectual pursuits? Also, are there books which are just too dangerous to read?
Is Toni Morrison’s The…
(Full Story)
|
By Alexandra Schnell, Research Fellow in Comparative Psychology, University of Cambridge
In nature, interactions between species are often framed in terms of survival — those that hunt and those that are hunted. But research is showing some animals form surprising partnerships, reshaping scientists’ ideas about how intelligence evolves in the animal kingdom.
Take Octavia and Finn, a striking duo hunting along a coral reef. I observed this pair while exploring a research site…
(Full Story)
|