Monday, March 17, 2025
A relative of two Syrians tortured and murdered by the Assad regime has spoken of the anguish caused by their enforced disappearance during the country’s civil war.
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By Laura
On February 16, 2025, the African Union (AU), which includes 55 countries and over 1.5 billion citizens, elected Mahmoud Ali Youssouf as the new chairperson of the AU Commission.
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By Emma Lewis
Cocoa Tea's song “Holy Mount Zion” was inspired by Determine's hugely popular hit “Kette Drum.” Although their styles were very different, both singers embraced Rastafari, expressing it in their music.
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By Amnesty International
Iranian authorities have escalated their crackdown on women’s rights defenders, journalists, singers and other activists demanding equality or who defy compulsory veiling using arbitrary detention, unjust prosecution, flogging, and even the death penalty in a bid to quash Iran’s women’s rights movement, Amnesty International said today. Since International Women’s Day (IWD) on 8 March, the […] The post Iran: Authorities target women’s rights activists with arbitrary arrest, flogging and death penalty appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Michael Williams, Professor of International Politics, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
The possibility that what’s known as continentalist geopolitics underpins recent U.S. foreign policy initiatives has received too little attention in Canada. Here’s what it means.
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By Margie Burns, Lecturer of English, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The phrase appeared on thousands of pages unrelated to Jane Austen before and during her life – and was a favorite phrase of the abolitionists.
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By Paul Bierman, Fellow of the Gund Institute for Environment, Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, University of Vermont
During the Cold War, the US poured support into Arctic military outposts and climate research amid fears of a Russian invasion. Climate change is still on the military’s radar as a threat multiplier.
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By Bradley Wade Bishop, Professor of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee
Every field has its own standard for what data gets recorded for specimens archived in a museum collection, which can make research difficult.
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By James Byrne, Assistant Teaching Professor in the Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics & Society, University of Colorado Boulder
Science uses careful, organized observations and tests to construct theories that are recorded, passed on to others and built on.
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By Laura Wray-Lake, Professor of Social Welfare, University of California, Los Angeles
A social scientist tracking adolescents’ beliefs and behaviors over time was uniquely positioned to document changes in teens’ worldviews after Trump’s 2016 election.
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