Mental health issues in children are linked to poorer educational outcomes. Alena Ozerova/Shutterstock Agne Suziedelyte, City, University of London; Anna Zhu, RMIT University, and Silvia Mendolia, University of Wollongong Evidence has shown that the COVID pandemic has impacted women’s mental health more significantly than men’s mental health. For example, lockdowns and the stress of home schooling have been found to …

Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham and Anastasiya Bayok, University of Hamburg As the war in Ukraine drags on and Russia’s attempts to gain significant ground in Donbas stall, concerns are being raised once again about the possibility of Belarus opening a second front. This, so the logic goes, would require Ukraine to redeploy forces from the front lines in the …

The substance of the new bill will make it much more difficult for people like asylum seekers to claim their human rights in the UK. Sean Aiden Calderbank/Shutterstock Merris Amos, Queen Mary University of London The Human Rights Act 1998 came into force just over 20 years ago in October 2000, vastly improving protections for human rights in common law, …