AUTHOR: Charisa Thuratong For the past few months, free movement has been limited in the Strait of Hormuz due to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)’s decision to close the strait following Trump and Israel’s aggression against the regime. With energy prices soaring worldwide, inflation risks threatening food security, particularly in the global south. Vital supply chains in a chokehold …
Image illustrating Mass Surveillance in China AUTHOR: Sara B. Gero In the age of artificial intelligence, the right to privacy is increasingly under threat. Governments across the world are using artificial intelligence to repress our right to protest, for example, by identifying protesters through facial recognition software. The use of AI tools has particularly harmful impacts on marginalised communities. Migrants …
Source: The New Yorker AUTHOR: Sibila del Palacio Cuesta “This trial is not about politics. It is about the thousands of people that were killed in cold blood” With these words, the International Criminal Court opened its investigation into one of the most violent chapters in recent Philippine history. The trial of former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte has resurfaced the …
AUTHOR: Elisa Zúñiga Park In September of 2025, Cristina Fallarás, Spanish feminist writer and journalist, holder ofprizes such as the Prize of Good Practices of Non-sexist Communication (Premio BuenasPrácticas de Comunicación No Sexista) or the Prize of Feminist Journalism (Premio dePeriodismo Feminista), was targeted and persecuted by far-right Spanish political partyVOX. The party made Fallarás their focus on all social …
AUTHOR: Beverly Mtui There comes a time when every era utters the words “power to the youth” and pours all oftheir hopes into young people, the next generation, to undo the world’s wrongdoings. However, what happens when young people really do take matters into their own hands and demand change? In recent years, we have seen the emergence of the …
Women wait in a hospital in Ghazni, August 2025 (EL PAIS) AUTHOR: Sibila del Palacio Cuesta In the five years since the Taliban reclaimed power over Afghanistan in August 2021, a systematic rewriting of legislation has been underway. Corporal punishment has gone hand in hand with this new legislative reality. In 2025 alone, more men and women were subjected to …
AUTHOR: Inês Alves Tomé IntroductionWith the establishment of AI in our daily lives, we have quickly learned how to incorporate this technology to make our lives easier. However, we have also started to observe several changes in our surroundings. These changes are particularly noticeable within the public sector, including national governments. In recent years, several governments have adopted systems in …
AUTHOR: Charisa Thuratong Overcrowded rooms, uncertainty over basic amenities and thin tents as a wavering roof, that is thereality of thousands of people detained in Northeast Syria. Although the fall of the dictator Basharal-Assad in December 2024 brought hope to the country, many detainees still wait to break free. Decades of Political Unrest Still Lingers TodaySyria’s political landscape is highly …
AUTHOR: Kenza Ethiopian troops in Oromia are perpetrating sexual violence with impunity. Amnesty International has documented multiple instances of sexual violence against women and girls. ContextEver since the non-international armed conflict in 2019, the Oromia region of Ethiopia hasbeen torn apart by armed conflict between the federal government and the Oromo LiberationArmy (OLA). The civilian population of the Oromia region …
Satellite images of power usage in Ukraine in January and November of 2022, respectively. AUTHOR: Sara. B. Gero What has been happening in Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion in 2022?The invasion of Ukraine started in February of 2022 when Russian forces crossed the border from Belarus and made their way towards the capital, Kyiv. Since then, violations …
