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Governments which employ private military companies, such as Wagner and Africa Corps, can be held liable for any human rights violations committed by these firms, research from Edith Cowan University (ECU) has highlighted.This post was […]

The global increase in migration—with approximately 3.6% of the global population living as expatriates—has resulted in many countries extending external voting rights to their overseas citizens. This has prompted scholarly interest in understanding the electoral […]

Withdrawing the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), once a fringe idea, has become a defining issue for political parties. Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, who previously opposed leaving, has now said the […]

In 2024, approximately 3.1 million Californians 12 and older directly experienced a hate act in the previous year, according to the newest California Health Interview Survey data, which was a half million more than the […]

In Canadian society, the narrative of multiculturalism can lean toward a “color-blind” ideology—a comforting idea that race doesn’t matter and everyone is treated the same—even though such narratives mask persistent inequalities. They may also undermine […]

Put on your tinfoil hats: New research finds that belief in conspiracy theories might be more common in the U.S. than you might think.This post was originally published on this site

Is the news media broken? According to a survey released last October by Gallup, Americans continue to register record-low trust in the mass media—with less than one-third expressing trust in the media to report the […]

New research led by The University of Manchester has uncovered a significant and lasting link between the subjects young people study in secondary school and their political preferences.This post was originally published on this site

As a researcher of police occupational culture, I was horrified, but not at all surprised by the recent Panorama program in which an undercover reporter exposed sexism, racism and general thuggishness among some Metropolitan Police […]

New research by Dr. Laure Humbert from The University of Manchester and Dr. Raphaële Balu from Sorbonne University has revealed how Britain’s vital contribution to the French Resistance during the Second World War was largely […]