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The World Tsunami Awareness Day 2025 Campaign is dedicated to advancing tsunami resilience through alignment with the Tsunami Ready Programme, a global initiative aimed at strengthening community resilience through awareness and preparedness strategies
11 million private renters in England will now have more secure and fairer conditions, such as ending Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions which removes people from their homes at the whim of the landlord, due to the Renters Right Bill receiving Royal Assent on 27th October and becoming an Act of Parliament.
These mobilisations have emerged largely outside of Indonesia’s acknowledged reformasi social movements that, since the mid 2000s, are often organised in NGOs with access to funding and recognition by the government as “legitimate” representatives of civil society. Many of the new street protests have a distinct class character, involving students and gig economy workers from poor backgrounds, as well as workers and farmers, many with previous experiences in conflict with state and private companies.
My soon-to-be-published new research finds generative AI also carries a colonial bias. When prompted to visualise Aotearoa New Zealand’s past, Sora privileges the European settler viewpoint: pre-colonial landscapes are rendered as empty wilderness, Captain Cook appears as a calm civiliser, and Māori are cast as timeless, peripheral figures. As generative AI tools become increasingly influential in how we communicate, such depictions matter. They naturalise myths of benevolent colonisation and undermine Māori claims to political sovereignty, redress and cultural revitalisation.
Cognitive struggles are climbing across the U.S., especially among young and economically disadvantaged adults. Rates of self-reported cognitive disability nearly doubled in people under 40 between 2013 and 2023. Researchers suspect social and economic inequality plays a major role and are urging further study to understand the trend’s causes and long-term impact.
The report said 83% of all countries, accounting for 90% of the world’s population, met the World Bank’s definition of high inequality. It added that countries with high inequality were seven times more likely to experience democratic decline than more equal countries.
Even though most of us think of healthcare as a human right, the reality is that in the United States the provision of healthcare is big business. It places profits over people, demonstrating that priority through tax dodging, price gouging, insurance denials, and unsafe conditions for patients, as documented in a recent joint report from our two organizations, Americans for Tax Fairness and Community Catalyst.