By John Blaxland, Professor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
Should Australia be worried that Trump will cast it aside following his harsh words for Europe? We shouldn’t panic – our overlapping interests with the US are enduring.
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By Andrew J. Karesa, Adjunct Professor, Indigenous Business, The King's University Canada
Douglas A. Stuart, Assistant Teaching Professor of Accounting, Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria
Indigenous people and communities are up against unequal and harmful effects that are not only economic, but also social and cultural.
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By Human Rights Watch
This month, a court in Azerbaijan convicted the prominent opposition leader Tofig Yagublu on fabricated forgery and fraud charges, sentencing him to nine years in prison. Yagublu’s prosecution and imprisonment is part of the Azerbaijani government’s relentless efforts to silence dissenting voices in the country.Yagublu, 64, is a former journalist and a senior member of the National Council of Democratic Forces, a coalition of opposition parties and pro-democracy activists. Following Yagublu’s arrest in December 2023, police searched his home and claim to have found €5,000 (about…
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Thursday, March 13, 2025
Governments everywhere are “letting children down instead of lifting them up” as conflict, hunger, poverty and climate change hold back child development, UN rights chief Volker Türk told Member States in Geneva on Thursday.
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Thursday, March 13, 2025
The Constitutional Declaration issued by Syria’s caretaker authorities marks a pivotal moment in the country’s turbulent transition, with UN Special Envoy Geir Pedersen expressing cautious optimism about its potential to fill a legal vacuum and pave the way for a “credible and inclusive political transition”.
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By Amnesty International
Responding to a report by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry (COI) on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel published today concluding that Israel has systematically used sexual, reproductive and other gender-based violence against Palestinians since October 2023 and carried out “genocidal acts” against Palestinians in Gaza by destroying women’s healthcare and reproductive health facilities […] The post UN report on Israel’s gender-based violence and genocidal acts against women’s health facilities must spur action to protect Palestinians appeared first on Amnesty…
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By Juan Carlos Palacios Cívico, Profesor Agregado en el área de Política Económica y Desarrollo, Universitat de Barcelona
Many analysts have interpreted Trump’s protectionist stance, and the United States’ imposition of tariffs, as economically irrational. If the liberal motto was once that “under free trade everybody wins”, it is now logical to think that, under protectionism, everyone will lose. It would also mean the end of globalisation, which would come at a great economic cost for the US.
In just the last few days, the US-Canada tariff crisis has escalated significantly. The Ontario government responded to Trump’s…
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By Erica Pimentel, Assistant Professor, Smith School of Business, Queen's University, Ontario
Mélissa Fortin, Assistant Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Crypto-believers often blame greedy financiers as the cause of the Great Recession, but crypto is not immune to these same risks.
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By Claire Fox, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Manchester
Young people today face increasing levels of uncertainty. They’re navigating volatile job and housing markets and contending with a future that’s likely to be significantly marked by the climate crisis. Evidence also indicates that this generation is experiencing a sharp deterioration in mental health. Developing resilience is often hailed as the…
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By Steve Schifferes, Honorary Research Fellow, City Political Economy Research Centre, City St George's, University of London
While Britain has for the most part had a strong commitment to free trade, it’s a very different story in the US, which has a long history of protectionism. This means that President Donald Trump’s tariff wars are playing out very differently politically on his side of the Atlantic. And there is no certainty that domestic opposition will be strong…
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