By Christina Cushen Source: Canva This article, written in recognition of World Mental Health Day on 10 October 2025, reflects on the ongoing human rights challenges faced by individuals living with mental illness.Imagine that you have been found not guilt y of a criminal offence due to your mental health illness, but instead you are confined in a mental health hospital in solitary confinement. This is exactly what is happening to one woman in Australia, who was found not gu

By Dimitra Sofianou Source: Canva Introduction On an early Wednesday morning in October 2024, an Italian navy ship carrying 16 migrants docked at the port of Sengjin, Albania. The trip marked the inauguration of a highly contested migration  deal between the two countries, which foresees sending migrants trying to reach Italian territory to detention facilities in neighbouring Albania instead, where they are to await a decision on their asylum claims. While the plan was met

By Talha Haroon Source: The Decolonial Centre Emerging from an era reverberating with the roars of cannons and preceding one driven by economic ambition, the 1950s represented a revolutionary zeitgeist. In this age, nascent countries, previously shackled to imperial hegemony, ventured towards equitable global standing. In this endeavour, 29 Asian–African nations — representing two-thirds of the world’s population at the time — convened in Bandung to create a decolonised world