'Scary and chilling': AI surveillance takes U.S. prisons by storm

U.S. prisons are installing AI-powered surveillance to fight crime, documents seen by the Thomson Reuters Foundation show, but critics say privacy rights are being trampled

Calls for new laws as tech fuels 'explosion' of online sex abuse

Governments worldwide are being urged to beef up laws to tackle online sexual exploitation as cyber abuse soars

LGBT+ businesses help spearhead Britain's economic recovery

LGBT+ businesses in Britain are revitalising local economies and offering a path to post-COVID economic recovery

AI bots to user data: Is there space for rights in the metaverse?

In a virtual world populated by digital characters, privacy and property rights face unprecedented challenges, campaigners say

After smoke drifts east, U.S. Congress eyes spending billions to curb wildfire threat

More than half of the $27 billion in forestry funding in the social spending bill, which the House aims to pass this week, would go toward 'hazardous fuels reduction projects'

As warming worsens floods, snake-like mobile dams could protect Africans

More climate finance could unlock wider use of innovative technologies like these portable dams that can be erected fast and capture water for use when floods subside

Rights groups warn COP26 rules on carbon markets leave indigenous people exposed

Paris pact rules for carbon markets, set to be decided in Glasgow lack protections to stop abuses of indigenous forest communities, human rights experts warn

'Architects of desire': Can advertising agencies glamorise climate solutions?

Too often criticised for promoting excessive consumption and greenwash, ad firms could use a new emissions metric to popularise climate-smart products

Climate 'loss and damage' earns recognition but little action in COP26 deal

Efforts to create a new fund to help with climate-change-driven "loss and damage" fail as the U.N. talks close, but the problem rises up the global agenda

EXPLAINER: What did vulnerable countries fight for at the COP26 climate summit?

As the U.N. climate talks ran overtime, vulnerable countries pushed for progress on issues from "loss and damage" to phasing out fossil fuels - but didn't get all they wanted

Duke Ellington school delays naming theater after Dave Chappelle

US school will postpone naming itself after Dave Chappelle, after the comedian's latest Nexflix special is said by some to have ridiculed transgender people

OPINION: An opportunity for a cleaner, just Gulf is lost as COP26 ends

There’s an inextricable link between the Gulf’s complicity in the climate crisis and their failure to respect fundamental human rights.

OPINION: Why countries should recognize a third gender

Only 14 countries recognize some form of third gender on official identity documents.

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