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Oct 23, 20242 min read

Persistent Armed Conflict Casts Doubt Over the Future of Higher Education in Somalia

A building destroyed during the 2022 attacks on the Somalian Ministry of Education. Photo Credit: Human Rights Watch Somalian professors...

Oct 21, 20242 min read

Participation of Palestinian Student Groups in Student Union Elections Prevented at Haifa University

Haifa University campus. Photo Credit: +972 Magazine The yearly election for the University of Haifa Students’ Union witnessed a...

Israel/Palestine

Oct 2, 20243 min read

Censorship Leads to Resignation of Sociology Professor at South Asian University

Professor Sasanka Perera. Photo credit: Colombo Telegraph A PhD student at South Asian University (SAU) received a show-cause notice from...

Sep 16, 20243 min read

Gubad Ibadoghlu to Remain in Indefinite House Arrest Amid Wider Crackdown Against Government Critics

Gubad Ibadoghlu. Photo Credit: Human Rights Watch The Azerbaijani government has intensified its crackdown against government critics in...

Sep 6, 20243 min read

Indiana Moves to Restrict Faculty Speech as US Universities Anticipate New Protest Wave

An aerial view of the Purdue University campus. Scholars from Purdue and Indiana Universities have challenged the new Indiana law in...

Aug 22, 20243 min read

Sierra Leonean Scholar Faces Harassment Campaign

Photo credit: Africanist Press On July 23, 2024, Endangered Scholars Worldwide (ESW) learned that Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, a Sierra Leonean...

Aug 19, 20243 min read

Bangladeshi Students Tortured Amid Crackdown on Protests

More than 266 people have been killed and around 20,000 injured in Bangladesh since the brutal crackdown on peaceful student protestors...

Aug 4, 20242 min read

Attacks on Higher Education Surge Globally

The Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA) has released their Education Under Attack Report for the years 2022-2023....

Jul 31, 20242 min read

Bangladesh Government Authorities Violently Crack Down on Students Protesting Quota System

Protestors marching towards the President's house. Photo Credit: EFE On July 16, 2024, violent clashes erupted on multiple university...

Sababa Ahmed

Jul 17, 20243 min read

Economist Critical of the UAE Government Given Life Sentence in Unfair Mass Trial

Photo credit: Human Rights Watch On July 10, 2024, at least 40 persons were sentenced to prison for life in the United Arab Emirates...

Jul 16, 20242 min read

Prominent Azerbaijani Economist In House Arrest After Release From Prison

Gubad Ibadoghlu with his lawyers after his release from prison. Photo Credit: Ibad Bayramov Prominent economist and New University in...

Jun 28, 20242 min read

New Law Puts Academic Freedom in Georgia at Risk

Protestors gathered outside of the Georgian parliament. Photo credit: Bloomberg On Tuesday May 28th, 2024, the Georgian parliament...

Jun 2, 20243 min read

More Than 100 Students Arrested at Columbia University as Protests Spread

Photo credit: Stella Ragas , Columbia Daily Spectator On Thursday, April 18, 2024, New York Police Department (NYPD) officers arrested...

Apr 23, 20245 min read

India’s Hindu Nationalists Attack Muslim Students Praying on Campus

Gujarat University, Ahmedabad. Photo credit: News24 On March 16th, 2024, fifteen international Muslim students were attacked by a...

Apr 10, 20242 min read

Tehran University Denies Mass Expulsion of Critics

University of Tehran. Photo credits: Wikipedia On March 14, 2024, the Chancellor of Tehran University, Mohammad Moghimi, denied claims of...