A sprawling online scam industry worth an estimated tens of billions of dollars a year is being powered by trafficked workers subjected to torture, sexual abuse and forced labour inside heavily guarded compounds in Southeast Asia, a new UN human rights report has found.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres highlighted the key role science has in international governance of artificial intelligence during an event on Friday held on the margins of the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India.
On the Horizon: February-July 2026 eschelhaas Fri, 02/20/2026 – 22:44 Latest Updates Africa Asia-Pacific Europe & Central Asia Latin America & Caribbean Middle East & North Africa United States Gender & Conflict Future of Conflict Global Issues Visual Explainers My Reading List On the Horizon / From Early Warning to Early Action 20 February 2026 […]
Four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion, millions in Ukraine struggle to keep the lights on and heat their homes, with the crisis taking a particular toll on women, humanitarians warned on Friday.
There has been an “alarming increase” in the number of children being recruited into gangs in Haiti with “devastating consequences” for children, families and society as a whole, the UN reported on Friday.
Understanding JNIM’s Expansion Beyond the Sahel emactaggart Fri, 02/20/2026 – 10:57 Latest Updates Africa Asia-Pacific Europe & Central Asia Latin America & Caribbean Middle East & North Africa United States Gender & Conflict Future of Conflict Global Issues Visual Explainers My Reading List Ivorian soldiers patrol on the back of a pick-up truck in Kafolo, […]
At a time when militarism is escalating, inequalities are deepening, and communities are facing overlapping crises, WILPF is choosing to tell a different story. Today, we are proud to launch our 2025 Annual Report, reimagined as a living 2026 calendar. Instead of publishing a traditional report, we asked ourselves: What if our accountability could also […]
Uganda’s plan to use future revenues from its emerging oil industry to drive economic development may not work as expected, because evidence so far shows that the government’s effort to extract and export its crude oil may not produce the returns it is counting on, analysts have warned. A new report by the Institute for […]
Most Ugandans whose land and livelihoods were affected by the construction of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) are dissatisfied with training programmes provided by developers which were designed to stop them being left worse off, a survey has found. The Africa Institute for Energy Governance (AFIEGO) asked 246 people in seven communities affected […]
Responding to today’s guilty verdict and life sentence for former South Korean President Yoon for the imposition of martial law in December 2024, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director Sarah Brooks said: “Today’s verdict and sentence is an important step towards accountability which demonstrates that no one is above the law in South Korea, including a […]
