As we eagerly await with white knuckles for all votes to be counted, the uncertain outcome of the U.S. election has created a global sentiment of anxiety. However, Tuesday’s election was not just the ‘Thunderdome-Esque’ battle between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. During the 2018 midterm elections, a small cluster
On October 22nd, Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal outlawed all abortions linked to fetal defects, one of the only abortion scenarios previously permitted and the most common reason for abortion in the country. This ruling has devastating consequences for women’s rights and violates Poland’s international human rights obligations. It has resulted in
On October 17, a fire completely destroyed a facility in Nova Scotia used by Indigenous Mi’kmaq fishers of the Sipekne’katik First Nation to store their catches. Earlier that week, on October 13, a few hundred non-Indigenous fishermen robbed two facilities that Mi’kmaq fishers were storing their catches in, one of
The French repatriation of African art is once again at the forefront of much discussion and debate in France, after four activists were recently fined for removing an African artifact from a Parisian museum in June. French museums hold about 90,000 pieces of African art and other artifacts that were
France has seen growing religious tensions after a priest was seriously wounded in Lyon last Saturday and two women and a man were killed in Nice last Thursday, both in separate terror attacks. It is not yet known if these incidents were related. They come off the back of several
The nightmarish vision that the beaches of Pelican Point in Central Namibia reveal seems unreal. More than 7,000 dead Cape fur seals were pushed ashore in Walvis Bay, near a well-known seal breeding colony and a school of dolphins. Naude Dreyer, a marine biologist from Ocean Conservation Namibia, has closely
