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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

Love Wins in India

Love Wins in India

On the 6th of September 2018, section 377 (which criminalises consensual sexual activity between members of the same sex) of the Indian Penal Code was declared to be unconstitutional, by justice Indu Malhotra. The section was first drafted in 1830 by Thomas Macaulay, who was Secretary to the board of

Unexpected resignation of Welfare-and Campaigns Co-President Shakes Students’ Union

On the 24th of September, the Welfare and Campaigns Co-President Jess Kumwongpin-Barnes resigned from their role through an email sent to the entire student body. Following Jess’ sudden resignation, the Students’ Union (SU) released a statement, writing that Jess ‘had not discussed this decision with us, and it came as

SOAS Management Accused of Preferential Admission of International students

SOAS Management Accused of Preferential Admission of International students

A Sunday Times investigation from August 2017 alleged that many top UK universities are discriminating against British fee status students as the universities seek to attract more international students and their higher fee rates, going so far as to accept those with poorer qualifications. SOAS management’s increasing admission of

Land IPCC report urges for unprecedented behavioural change to avoid 2.0 C catastrophic projections

Land IPCC report urges for unprecedented behavioural change to avoid 2.0 C catastrophic projections

As the results of 3 years and 6,000 studies carried out by 90 researchers from 44 different countries, unveiled, in Incheon, South Korea, the brief immediately arose the readers’ interests, not much due to its scientific revolutionary content, but rather for its novel focus on behavioural change and its

Foreign Involvement in Yemen is Fuelling a Humanitarian Crisis

Foreign Involvement in Yemen is Fuelling a Humanitarian Crisis

The UN has issued a warning that the number of Yemenis in danger of starving by December, has risen from 8.4 million to 18.4 million. Yemen, since 2015, has been in the grip of a civil war fuelled by foreign intervention. The war is between the Saudi backed