PCHR reports systematic sexual torture of palestinian detainees from Gaza by israeli forces, including rape and psychological humiliation. "These practices are part and parcel of the ongoing crime of genocide against the Palestinian people in the Strip." pchrgaza.org/pchr-documen...

Applications close this Sunday, 16th November 2025. Stephan Klasen Fellowships in Development Economics at the University of Göttingen. www.uni-goettingen.de/en/632637.html

📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣 "The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct" Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving." Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

Mamdani’s victory means so much — including the repudiation of Islamophobic attacks and weaponization of antisemitism.

🚨 Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta describes evidence of systematic organ theft from Palestinian bodies recently returned from Israeli custody, saying hearts, lungs, kidneys, and corneas were surgically removed from those killed in Gaza. He noted surgical cuts and stitching from the chest to the abdomen...

Eyewitnesses report that "RSF forces selected women and girls at gunpoint when entering shelters for internally displaced persons (IDPs) near El Fasher University; gang-raped at least 25 of them and then forced at least 100 displaced families to flee amid gunfire" www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

The Trump admin's foreign economic policies could harm countries worldwide. CGD experts rank which nations are likely to be hit hardest by the policies, finding poorer countries bear the brunt, longtime US allies aren’t spared, and more. Explore: https://bit.ly/3IOT5sU

I don’t think enough people are talking about the beauty of NYC electing its first Muslim mayor the day Dick Cheney died. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Zohran Mamdani in his victory speech in the NYC mayoral race tonight said: "In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light."

Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball! This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers. paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...

SOAS University becomes the first British University to Issue a Statement on Scholasticide in Gaza www.soas.ac.uk/about/news/s...

Documents reveal Germany coordinated with Israel on what to disclose to the ICJ about arms exports. Records show some export details were withheld, with testimony about “medical supplies and helmets” made “in agreement” with Israel under a confidentiality deal. www.stern.de/politik/deut...

"First, this experiment shares participants with another experiment conducted simultaneously in the same region, but test scores for the same children systematically differ between the two experiments." www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10... 🤔

Germany’s Hand in Sudan’s War www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/5...

This is no way to maintain a ceasefire: “At Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in Gaza on Wednesday, a New York Times reporter saw women weeping over the bodies of children. Dr. Ahmed al-Farra … said the hospital had received the bodies of 21 people killed in the strikes, including 13 children.”

Please take a moment of your day to read up on what’s happening in Sudan and to understand the U.K’s involvement, yet again, it’s important www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

You can see the rivers of blood via satellite. That’s the reality in 🇸🇩. @hrl-yalesph.bsky.social finds evidence of mass killings including door-to-door clearance operations and objects consistent with reported bodies on berm entrapping El-Fasher. #KeepEyesOnSudan medicine.sale.edu/lab/khoshnoo...

Call for two Stephan Klasen Fellowships at the University of Göttingen, for postdoctoral researchers in development economics from low- and middle-income countries. Applications close 16th November 2025. www.uni-goettingen.de/en/632637.html

Call for two Stephan Klasen Fellowships at the University of Göttingen, for postdoctoral researchers in development economics from low- and middle-income countries. Applications close 16th November 2025. www.uni-goettingen.de/en/632637.html

Despite the ceasefire news, Israelis are still shooting children in Gaza t.me/QudsNen/190555

This quote below is what they’re doing right now with their continued bombing of Gaza

Sir Andy Haines arguing that militarism is a threat to Planetary Health at #PHAM2025. It causes emissions & pollution, diverts attention & investments from tackling the planetary crisis, and instead of providing security it endangers our global security and increases deaths.

Academic economists forming connections on social media show a bias toward certain races, genders, and elite institutions, say researchers at @mcgill.ca, Sao Paulo School of Economics, and MIT. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...

German energy giant RWE has pulled out of its agreement with the Namibian "green" hydrogen project Hyphen. The withdrawal underscores growing concerns about human rights violations, environmental risks & a lack of Indigenous consultations & consent in Great Namaqualand. www.ecchr.eu/en/press-rel...

This ad was published in a Charleston, SC newspaper in 1857. (Transcription in Alt text.) #slaveryarchive 🗃

Please sign: uppsaladeclaration.se/europe/

🧵 Thread of all killed Journalists in Gaza I uploaded to my profile. They sacrificed their lives to reveal the truth, they deserve to be remembered יהי זכרם ברוך - May their memory be a blessing

New research published in The Lancet finds that Western unilateral sanctions have caused 38 million deaths since 1970. The average death toll ranges from 400,000 to over 1 million per year. Staggering levels of violence. This system is intolerable and must be replaced.

Read all our "Share your Decolonising Posts" in this 🧵 or directly here ➡️ www.developmentresearch.eu?cat=130

europe doesnt need america they have america at home (germany)

Failure to ensure due diligence makes @ec.europa.eu & #Spain Gov't complicit of serious abuses in #Mauritania. @hrw.org report urges EU & its member states to refrain from migration cooperation that is not free from rights violations. In @euobserver.com: euobserver.com/migration/ar...

Today, I’m a proud Anti-Zionist Jew, living in occupied Palestine. Even Prof. Leibowitz referred to the modern Zionist Jews as Judeo-Nazis, they have the same ideology of supremacy over others, just like the South Africa of the 90s This HAS to end. (8/8)

Found in the letterbox today, sent by an association led by the former (ran, someone else from his list was elected) local AfD councilor. On their website they complain also about foreign names on doorbells, yet the foreign name in the letterbox didn't stop them.

CfP: Gender equality and women's empowerment in the Mediterranean region, at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem in December www.alquds.edu/en/news/anno...

Pakistan cities face a dual challenge: rapid urbanisation & climate risks 📄Our new Growth brief: lays out insights on green infrastructure & smart planning → www.theigc.org/publications... Also the latest CDPR podcast dives on urban climate realities → www.cdpr.org.pk/podcast/citi...

Today in 2015, the body of Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian child, was found on a beach in Turkey. A photo went viral, sparking awareness & compassion for migrants who drown at sea. Historians now say it was the last time anyone publicly cared about the death of children.

🆕 Gender dynamics in times of armed conflict: Victims, fighters, and peacebuilders Today on VoxDev, Siwan Anderson (Vancouver School of Economics) & Maria Micaela Sviatschi (Princeton University) discuss the impact of armed conflict on gender inequality: voxdev.org/topic/social...

"Why Did Pakistan Award 'Israel's Favorite US General' a Prestigious Medal?" Bestowing a medal on the very American general who has been so intimately involved in Israel’s holocaust of Gaza is beyond absurd, writes Fatima Bhutto for Zeteo:

“The live-streamed exodus of roughly 740,000 Rohingya eight years ago did not mark the end of Myanmar’s genocidal persecution and destruction, just as the Nakba…did not mark the end of the catastrophe for Palestinians.” Read: zeteo.com/p/the-rohing...

“The study authors asked GPT 4o-mini to evaluate the quality of 217 papers. The tool didn’t mention in any of the reports that the papers being analyzed had been retracted or had validity issues. In 190 cases, GPT described the papers as world leading, internationally excellent, or close to that”

Germany enshrines Wiedergutmachung as proof of moral reckoning after the Holocaust, yet denies it for its colonial crimes. What this reveals about a politics of memory built on evasion. Read the full piece on my Substack. hannohauenstein.substack.com/p/the-limits...