Category: World

Britain will be better protected from foreign state-backed activity in a new crackdown on Iranian and Russian groups who seek to direct violence and intimidation on our streets. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the Islamic Movement of Companions of the Right (IMCR) and Russia’s GRU Volunteer Corps will become the first bodies designated under […]

Football has embraced the issue of diversity, though not without controversy. But how do online communities respond to these efforts? An analysis of several thousand social media posts reveals a more nuanced reality: in the eyes of the public, not all forms of diversity are received in the same way. Nelson Mandela famously said that […]

New sanctions target the Russian state’s persistent and increasingly reckless attempts to sow chaos and division across Europe.    UK and EU hit back with first joint cyber sanctions package, as they attribute Russia’s cyber-attack on Poland.    UK sanctions and exposes Russian state and cybercriminal proxies carrying out malicious attacks across Europe and sanctions those deliberately spreading deceptive anti-Ukraine narratives.    The Russian state and its criminal networks responsible for orchestrating […]

Mehdi Arfaoui, Sociologist, Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) & École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) Leanda Barrington-Leach, Executive Director, 5Rights Foundation  Tobiáš Bruno Galia, President’s Youth Advisory Board, Czech Council of Children and Youth Urs Buscke, Senior Legal Officer, European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) Alex Cooney, CEO & Co-founder, CyberSafeKids María […]

Growing up in New Jersey, Ms. Jetter saved the quarters her grandfather gave her – not for sweets, but for batteries and light bulbs, so she could build circuits from whatever she found around the neighbourhood.   Her father took her to the library for materials; her mother, a kindergarten and special education teacher, taught her how to explain complex […]

It’s a real pleasure to join you for the Climate Resilience Finance Summit, because to mobilise finance for climate resilience at scale, we’re all going to have to work together. This is not something governments can do alone. At its core, it’s about turning the ambition that we all have into action. We’ve got stay […]

Joint statement Australia and the United Kingdom emphasise the importance of practical, co-ordinated international action to advance gender equality. We reaffirm our shared resolve to safeguard and strengthen gender equality, including through the protection of United Nations mandates on gender equality, women’s empowerment, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. We support ambitious and effective […]

The US said it had struck around 140 targets on Saturday in response to the Iranian military striking a vessel which was navigating through the international waterway. Tehran reportedly launched a series of attacks targeting a US base in Jordan on Sunday, while the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman and Kuwait said they had come […]

“I hope my children’s future will be brighter than our present,” said Mayyada, who is originally from Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza and has lost count of the number of times her family has been forced to move during the Israel-Hamas war that started in October 2023. Forced to flee their homes multiple times, families […]

The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America, Australia, Canada, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, New Zealand, the Republic of the Philippines, Romania, Slovenia, and the United Kingdom on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Philippines-China South China Sea Arbitral Tribunal Award: We reaffirm our unwavering commitment to maintaining a […]