“Global Fishing Watch's vessel tracking shows that in 2026 the krill fishing fleet operated primarily in the Bransfield and Gerlache straits of the Antarctic Peninsula and northwest of the South Orkney Islands (...). Krill fishing is now happening in precisely the concentrated pattern the regional-cap conservation measure was created to prevent.” The companies fishing for Antarctic krill have harvested so much so quickly that the season had to close in August 2026, three months before it (…)

Iran's parliament has approved the general framework of a controversial bill that expands the definition of “foreign influence,” potentially criminalising ordinary forms of contact with foreign media, academic institutions, and international organisations. Iran's parliament has approved the general framework of a bill titled “Countering the Infiltration of Foreign Intelligence Services and Institutions.” The proposal has triggered widespread concern among political, legal, and media (…)

Israel is unabashed about its policy of taking over West Bank land, and Israeli soldiers seem content to prevent Palestinians, Israelis, or international journalists from documenting the settler takeover in Qusra Israeli soldiers standing in front of a home where three Palestinian families are besieged in Qusra, northern West Bank, on Friday. Credit: Itai Ron It isn't easy to visit the families of Qusra, in the northern West Bank, whose homes have been besieged by settlers since last (…)

Settlers have been besieging a Palestinian family for 10 days in an effort to seize their home. The army's unwillingness to stop them tells the whole story. For the past 10 days, Qusai Abu Ridi has watched from his balcony as Israeli settlers and accompanying soldiers lay siege to his home. Qusai Abu Ridi is seen in his besieged home as Israeli soldiers block activists from reaching him, Qusra, occupied West Bank, August 14, 2026. (Oren Ziv) The settlers arrived in Qusra — located (…)

As medicine runs out under Israel's blockade and care is routinely disrupted, dialysis and cancer patients in the enclave are left to die slowly. Dialysis patient Basel Al-Dahdouh in his family's tent on Al-Shuhada Street in central Gaza City, August 13, 2026. (Hussain Al-Jerjawi) Four days a week, 5-year-old Ibrahim Abdullah travels three kilometers from his family's tent in Al-Mawasi to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, where he spends nearly four hours connected to a dialysis machine. (…)

Des publications anglo-saxonnes sont devenues récemment alarmistes sur une possible dérive autoritaire de l'Indonésie sous la présidence de l'ancien général Prabowo Subianto. Les signes d'un durcissement politique se sont effectivement multipliés, mais il existe dans cet immense archipel une société civile dynamique qui garde vivante la flamme de la démocratie. Prabowo Subianto. Photo de candidature à l'élection présidentielle en 2019. DR. On peut en effet constater une évolution (…)

Le 11 août 2026, le Conseil des oulémas d'Indonésie (Majelis Ulama Indonesia, MUI) déclare que le port de vêtements féminins par des hommes lors des festivités du 17 août, jour anniversaire de la proclamation de l'indépendance de l'Indonésie, est interdit par la sharia, la loi islamique. Un épisode de plus dans un pays où la population musulmane est la plus nombreuse du monde mais où l'homophobie ne cesse de croître. Le MUI est une organisation non-gouvernementale fondée en 1975 par le (…)

“The University of Edinburgh's Peace Agreement Database and Dataset recorded four agreements related to the Gaza ceasefire process in 2025. (...) These agreements addressed things such as the exchange of hostages and prisoners, and created a transitional authority for the Gaza Strip. But they did not build the machinery that decides what counts as a breach, who adjudicates in case of disputes and how the process resumes once a breach has been found.” Donald Trump's Board of Peace published (…)