By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Protesters attend a demonstration against Kenya's proposed finance bill 2024/2025 in Nairobi, Kenya, June 25, 2024. © 2024 REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi (Nairobi) – Kenyan security forces abducted, arbitrarily arrested, tortured, and killed perceived leaders of the anti-Finance Bill protests between June and August 2024, Human Rights Watch said today. Security officers held abductees, who they had detained without respecting their legal rights, in unlawful detention facilities, including in forests and abandoned buildings, and denied them access to their families and lawyers.The…
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By Xanthe Mallett, Forensic Criminologist, University of Newcastle
The Jury: Death on the Staircase follows the deliberations of 12 jurors as they listen to nine days’ worth of evidence in a real, concluded manslaughter case.
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By Yanyan Hong, PhD Candidate in Communication and Media Studies, University of Adelaide
Too often, Indian cinema is seen through the colourful and musical lens of Bollywood – but that’s just one piece of a much larger, richer puzzle.
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By Matt Garrow, Editorial Web Developer
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By Marissa Nivison, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Calgary
Sheri Madigan, Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary
It is normal for an older child to behave in ways parents will find challenging when a sibling arrives, and for parents to feel upset they cannot spend as much time with their older children.
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By Tony Robert Walker, Professor, School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University
Simon Harper, Professor of Computer Science, University of Manchester
Canada has more than 13,000 beekeepers with almost 1,000,000 beehives spread across every province. Together, they produce about 40,000,000 kilograms of honey each year. That is enough for roughly one kilogram of honey for every Canadian.
When honeybees forage, they collect nectar, pollen and water from nearby flowers. These flowers contain…
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By Shannon Bow O'Brien, Associate Professor of Instruction, The University of Texas at Austin
In US history, there have been many memorable elections – including those involving quick, decisive wins and others subjected to drawn-out legal battles.
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By Oiwan Lam
As suicides are on the rise among young people in Hong Kong, some suggest that adopting traditional Chinese values and cultural practices can solve the student suicide problem.
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By Ciara Molloy, Lecturer in Criminology, University of Sheffield
This article contains spoilers for Small Things Like These.
The historical drama Small Things Like These is the story of an ordinary man, Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy), who makes an extraordinary choice in 1980s Ireland. The film is based on the award-winning 2021 novel by Claire Keegan.
“If you want to get on in this life, there’s things you have to ignore.” Eileen Furlong’s (Eileen Walsh) advice to her husband Bill is…
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By Peter Sivey, Reader in Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ debut budget pledged increases of £22.6 billion in day-to-day spending for the NHS and £3.1 billion in capital spending over the next two years. The increase in day-to-day spending is intended to fulfil Labour’s campaign promise of “40,000 more appointments per week” from their election manifesto.
This often-repeated promise gives the government a tangible short-term goal in its longer-term mission to meet the 18-week…
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