Sign in Subscribe

News

Labour and Tory Conferences: A Summary

Labour and Tory Conferences: A Summary

As Chancellor Philip Hammond calls to reinvent the image of capitalism within Britain, heated exchanges have persisted between the Conservative Party and the Labour Party. One of the biggest highlights of the conference was Theresa May’s promise to finally end austerity after 8 years. She proclaimed that Britain’s

SOAS' £20k compensation student calls for university to issue formal apology.

SOAS’ £20,000 PhD compensation student, Dr Vishal Vora, has began an online petition calling for SOAS management to issue a formal apology for supervision failures. Dr Vora, a former SOAS PhD student, was compensated £20,000 by the university after a six-year long legal battle, following the university’s

FRONT PAGE STORY: Sexual Harassment at SOAS

FRONT PAGE STORY: Sexual Harassment at SOAS

A campaign called Account for This, has called on SOAS to improve its services in dealing with victims of sexual harassment, following a recent case of sexual harassment by a postgraduate student at the university. In August 2018, an anonymous letter alleging that a postgraduate student at SOAS had harassed

Chagos Islands: The Battle for Sovereignty ensues

Chagos Islands: The Battle for Sovereignty ensues

For over half a century, the United Kingdom and Mauritius have heatedly debated the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands. Located in the Indian Ocean, about 500 kilometres south of Maldives, the Islands have been subject to severe encroachments on their sovereignty since 1965, when the UK and Mauritius made a

German emission reductions set to fall short of 2020 targets

German emission reductions set to fall short of 2020 targets

A court in the western German city of Münster has ruled that the electric utility company RWE must indefinitely postpone its planned clearing of the 200-hectare (500-acre) Hambach forest, which has been a battleground between environmental activists and police for six years. Following a lawsuit brought by BUND, the German

Sealing Liquid Borders – Italy’s Not-So-Hidden Agenda

Sealing Liquid Borders – Italy’s Not-So-Hidden Agenda

Since 2016, the Aquarius search and rescue vessel, chartered by SOS Méditerranée and Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), has been operating in hazardous Mediterranean waters between Libya and Italy. Over the past two years, it has rescued almost 30,000 people. However, according to the Guardian, ‘the Aquarius is the last

Reported Mass Internment of Uighur population in China’s Xinjiang region

Reported Mass Internment of Uighur population in China’s Xinjiang region

Vocational training centres for Uighur Muslims have been written into the legislation of the Chinese region of Xinjiang. According to estimates cited by the UN there are approximately a million Uighur Muslims who have been forcibly interned in these centres. However, the governor of the Xinjiang region, Shohrat Zakir, quoted