Dear Ambassadors, We, the undersigned organizations working across the globe on gender justice, human rights, and peace and security, write to you ahead of the 25th anniversary of Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) to deliver one simple message — it is time to fight back. This year, the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda turns […]| NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security
Data privacy is one of consumers’ chief concerns. For businesses, this should represent an opportunity to build trust with their customers. Find out how.| www.osano.com
Presenting my book EU’s Censorship on Freedom of Speech. Echoes of Fascist Repression in War Propaganda. (August 2025). Publisher: Libertarian Books Europe, ISBN: 978-91-88747-37-2. | The Indicter
South Africa has set out its case accusing Israel of violating the Genocide Convention, pointing to the current situation in the bombarded, besieged Gaza Strip, home to 2.3 million Palestinians.| UN News
We demand that Togolese authorities uphold human rights, restore full internet access, and refrain from imposing any future shutdowns in the country.| Access Now
Inclusion is at the core of psychological safety, and must be defined as a central team value. Any individual behaviours or beliefs that don't align with the principle of inclusion must be addressed.| Psych Safety
1. An Extremist, Minority Government In Part Two of The Road to Wigan Pier, first published in 1937, George Orwell wrote at length about the threat of fascism in England. He was out in his reckonin…| A Communist in Hong Kong
Both china's one-child policy and the oppressive social norms of some African countries are examples of damaging coercive population policies| The Overpopulation Project
Internet censorship is the control of access to online content. We'll define the types of internet censorship and explain how it works around the world.| www.top10vpn.com
As International Women’s Day approaches, the NCRI Women’s Committee proudly presents its Annual Report 2025, offering a comprehensive review of| NCRI Women Committee
I recently wrote about “How My Values Inform Design”. There I discussed the issue of autonomy and how it can be supported by progressive trust, proof ag...| Life With Alacrity
Lake Geneva by Dmitry A. Mottl (CC BY-SA 4.0). This article is part of our virtual symposium and essay series, “Masking Religious Freedom Violations.” Read more here. The analytic systems employed to identify religious freedom violations often run into a barrier erected by two words – religious freedom. These two words are common jargon in…Read More| Canopy Forum
San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León by Mexico Fotos (CC BY SA 2.0). This article is part of our virtual symposium and essay series, “Masking Religious Freedom Violations.” Read more here. On October 20, 2024, two people on a motorcycle shot at priest Marcelo Perez Perez’s vehicle as he left the parish of Guadalupe, located…Read More| Canopy Forum
What are the international instruments dictating who has to act in Child Sexual Integrity Violations (CSIV)? The UN sais ... The Conven...| children for status
At current rates of progress, the world is unlikely to meet the global goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030, with estimates suggesting that more than 600 million people will still be living in extreme poverty.| United Nations
What does the U.S. election outcome mean for education here? One aspect is that while the ‘Christian right’ in the UK may not be as powerful as its US counterpart, it still exerts influence on publ…| Jen Persson's blog
The United Nations' support for Covid lockdowns and vaccine mandates, despite its paper thin commitment to human rights, shows why we should all fear its new Pact for the Future, say Dr Thi Thuy Van Dinh and Dr David Bell.| The Daily Sceptic
Freedom of expression protects everyone’s right to seek out information, form their own opinions, and share ideas freely through conversation, social media, books, radio, TV, and all other media. It’s so important, it’s listed as a human right in Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. What does freedom of expression look like? In this article, we’ll explore what freedom of expression is, provide five examples, and discuss why and when freedom of expres...| Human Rights Careers
Image of Palacio del Centro Asturiano, Havana, Cuba by Carol M. Highsmith (CC0) The following essay is reprinted and adapted on Canopy Forum in collaboration with the journal Derecho en Sociedad, a biannual electronic publication that is free and open access. Their issue 18(2) features full length articles in Spanish and English. Read Flores’ long-form essay on the Cuban…Read More| Canopy Forum
Based on a talk prepared for an event in parliament, hosted by Connected By Data and chaired by Lord Tim Clement-Jones, focusing on the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, on Monday 5th D…| Jen Persson's blog
The Swiss Federal Prosecutor is incompetent over matters of his competence when Swiss authorities are involved. Today the Federal Prosec...| children for status
Inclusion is at the core of psychological safety, and must be defined as a central team value. Any individual behaviours or beliefs that don't align with the principle of inclusion must be addressed.| Psych Safety
Neche, North Dakota, may be a small, but former members of the religion dominating the town describe an environment dominated by a ‘universal leader’ and based on fear, family and finances.| Alexandria Echo Press
Neche, North Dakota, may be a small, but former members of the religion dominating the town describe an environment dominated by a ‘universal leader’ and based on fear, family and finances.| Duluth News Tribune
Neche, North Dakota, may be a small, but former members of the religion dominating the town describe an environment dominated by a ‘universal leader’ and based on fear, family and finances.| Grand Forks Herald
Neche, North Dakota, may be a small, but former members of the religion dominating the town describe an environment dominated by a ‘universal leader’ and based on fear, family and finances.| Bemidji Pioneer
Neche, North Dakota, may be a small, but former members of the religion dominating the town describe an environment dominated by a ‘universal leader’ and based on fear, family and finances.| Dickinson Press
Did you know we’re all pagans? That’s right. America is majority pagan. We worship Ishtar and the Onion God and have cool-ass pagan festivals featuring palm fronds and sacred orgies. Public feasts in every town distribute meat and mead, blessed by pagan priestesses in ancient regalia, to all the townsfolk, at public or patriot expense. […]| Richard Carrier Blogs
STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES Climate policy is not a game; the stakes could not possibly be higher. The future integrity of food systems, local and national economies, and even the sustainability of nat…| Blue Notes
How can we design an AI that will be highly capable and will not harm humans? In my opinion, we need to figure out this question - of controlling AI so that it behaves in really safe ways - before we reach human-level AI, aka AGI; and to be successful, we need all hands on deck.| Yoshua Bengio
ABSTRACT: The idea of Self-Sovereign Identity emerged in 2016, but it has inspirations dating back centuries. This article explores the historic evolution of sovereignty and demonstrates how it can be modeled using approaches from other disciplines, including Living Systems Theory and Ostrom’s Principles. It then dovetails that with the topic of human rights to demonstrate many of the goals of the original advocacy for Self-Sovereign Identity. These are goals that we must reconsider today, ...| Blockchain Commons
By Victor Hua, Knowledge Mobilization and Social Action Assistant (Placement student) Abel Kassa, Access Alliance client, shown with his car that he uses to drive for Uber (AccessPoint on Danforth) In an ideal world, a job should provide a stable source of income that allows us to live life comfortably.| Access Alliance
“Excited delirium” cannot be disentangled from its racist and unscientific origins and is not a valid, independent medical or psychiatric diagnosis.| PHR
This weekend I was outraged. Twitter suddenly proposed in the “for you” feed a tweet by someone publicly crying outrage in disgust of a m...| children for status
