The panel at OpenText Summit Africa 2025. At the OpenText Summit Africa 2025, held in Sandton on 4 September, a panel discussion tackled one of the most pressing questions facing organisations today: how do businesses drive transformation while simultaneously elevating human potential? Moderated by Shanaaz Moosa, Sales Director for public sector and cyber security at…
New York — World leaders gathering at the United Nations General Assembly from September 22-30, 2025, should commit to protecting the UN from powerful governments seeking to defund and undermine the organization’s capacity to promote human rights and international justice, Human Rights Watch said today. On the eve of the General Assembly’s annual general debate,…
Khas Kunar, Afghanistan – When the ground shook beneath Andarlachak village in the Diwa Gul Valley on August 31, the already precarious lives of its residents collapsed along with the walls of their homes. “Our houses now have huge cracks or collapsed walls. We can’t stay in our homes. The beams have cracked,” said Abdul…
Insaaf Daniels, head of human capital at redPanda Software. Your next job interview could be with a bot. You’ll be sent a video conference invite just like any other meeting, but instead of chatting to someone from HR or recruitment, you’ll interact with a computer that asks questions and records your responses. There won’t be…
What’s the link between an exploding star, climate change and human evolution? Francis Thackeray, who has researched ancient environments and fossils for many years, sets out his ideas about what happened in the distant past – with enormous consequences. Global cooling that happened millions of years ago was thought to be the result of ocean…
Witness History looks back at the 2003 discovery of the Homo floresiensis on the Indonesian island of Flores.
Arusha — A key highlight of the Session is the Conference on “Enhancing Women’s Engagement with the Procedures of the African Court” to be held from 3-4 September 2025 at the Seat of the Court in Arusha, United Republic of Tanzania. The Conference will bring together Counsel on the Court’s Roster, Bar Associations and Law…
– A readers’ forum on the book “Xi Jinping: On Respecting and Protecting Human Rights” was held Thursday in Addis Ababa. The forum has brought together African political leaders, scholars, media professionals, and students to discuss the African relevance of China’s human rights approach. Speaking at the event, the China Society for Human Rights Studies…
With the jagged peaks of Cape Town’s Table Mountain beneath him and the wind roaring past his wingsuit, South African Jean-Jacques Wallis is redefining the limits of human flight — and putting South Africa on the global map of extreme aerial sports. Wallis, 35, is one of the world’s fastest wingsuit flyers, achieving speeds of…
The 2024 State Department Human Rights Reports transform democrats into despots in a reflection of Trump and MAGA values. Few things illustrate US President Donald Trump’s radical foreign policy shift as clearly as the 2024 State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. These reports on the state of human rights worldwide were mandated by…
