Forced disappearances were notoriously a favoured tool of Latin American dictatorships in the 1970s and 1980s, but today, they seem to be on the rise around the world. Rodwan Abouharb has been researching why this particular human rights violation making a comeback, and has found evidence that countries keen to clear up their record of extrajudicial killings are simply turning to disappearances instead.

The recent acquittal of a farmer who shot and killed a young unarmed Indigenous man on a farm in Saskatchewan has ignited outrage in Canada. Vicki Chartrand of Bishop’s University explores how Canada’s justice system “works against Indigenous people at every level, from police checks and arrests to bail denial and detention.